Oceanic intraplate volcanoes exposed: Example from seamounts accreted in Panama

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 335-338

  Buchs, David M ^a   Arculus, Richard J ^b   Baumgartner, Peter O ^a   Ulianov, Alexey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; BASALTIC LAVA; BASALTIC LAVA FLOW; DEEP DRILLING; HEMIPELAGIC SEDIMENTS; INCOMPATIBLE ELEMENT; LITHOLOGIC MAPPING; MAGMATIC EVOLUTION; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY APPROACH; OCEANIC ISLANDS; OCEANIC VOLCANOES; PALEOGENE; RIFT ZONES; SHALLOW-WATER;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; STRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANOES;

BASALT;

AGE DETERMINATION; BASALT; DEEP DRILLING; DIKE; EOCENE; GABBRO; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; LAVA FLOW; PALEOGENE; PALEONTOLOGY; PETROLOGY; SEAMOUNT;

AZUERO PENINSULA; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

EID: 79954575380     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31703.1     Document Type: Article

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