Palaeoposition of the seychelles microcontinent in relation to the deccan traps and the plume generation zone in late cretaceous-early palaeogene time

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 357, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 229-252

  Ganerod M ^a   Torsvik, T H ^a,b,c   van Hinsbergen, D J J ^b,c   Gaina, C ^a,b,c   Corfu, F ^b   Werner, S ^b   Owen Smith, T M ^d   Ashwal, L D ^d   Webb, S J ^d   Hendriks, B W H ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c Det Norske Videnskaps Akademi   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN PLATE; ARGON-ARGON DATING; CENOZOIC; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CRETACEOUS; DECCAN TRAPS; EMPLACEMENT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; INDIAN PLATE; MAGMATISM; MICROPLATE; PALEOGENE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOMAGNETISM; PRECISION; RECONSTRUCTION; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

SEYCHELLES;

EID: 84055176468     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP357.12     Document Type: Article

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