Characteristics of volcanic rifted margins

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 362, Issue , 2002, Pages 1-14

  Menzies, Martin A ^a   Klemperer, Simon L ^b   Ebinger, Cynthia J ^a   Baker, Joel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Dansk Lithosfaerecenter   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOODS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CLIMATIC SYSTEMS; DIAGNOSTIC FEATURES; FLOOD VOLCANISMS; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENTS; LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCES; MID OCEAN RIDGE BASALTS; PRODUCTION RATES; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL;

VOLCANOES;

CONTINENTAL CRUST; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; FLOOD BASALT; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENT; JUVENILE; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; RIFT ZONE; SUBMARINE; VOLCANIC ROCK; VOLCANISM;

EID: 78649558402     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2362-0.1     Document Type: Article

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