Tectonic setting and timing of the final Deccan flood basalt eruptions

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 839-842

  Hooper, Peter ^a   Widdowson, Mike ^a   Kelley, Simon ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALTIC MELTS; CONTINENTAL FLOOD BASALT; CONTINENTAL RIFTING; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FLOOD BASALT; HIGH-PRECISION; INDIAN PLATE; LITHOSPHERIC EXTENSION; TECTONIC SETTINGS; TEMPORAL RELATIONSHIPS; WEST COAST;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; TECTONICS; TIME MEASUREMENT;

BASALT;

DECCAN TRAPS; EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FLOOD BASALT; PETROGENESIS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

INDIA; MAHARASHTRA; MUMBAI;

EID: 77958084921     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31072.1     Document Type: Article

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