Interconnected sills and inclined sheet intrusions control shallow magma transport in the Ferrar large igneous province, Antarctica

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 162-180

  Muirhead, James D ^a   Airoldi, Giulia ^b   Rowland, Julie V ^a   White, James D L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; BASEMENT ROCKS; BEDDING PLANES; EXPOSURE AREAS; FAR-FIELD; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; FLOOD BASALT; INTRUSIVE PROCESS; JURASSIC; LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCES; MAGMA TRANSPORT; MECHANICAL COUPLING; PHYSICAL INTERACTIONS; PLUMBING SYSTEMS; PYROCLASTIC ROCKS; SHALLOW SUBSURFACE; SHEET INTRUSION; STRUCTURAL DATA; TECTONIC SETTINGS; TECTONIC STRESS; TERRA COTTA;

BUILDINGS; LEVEES; TECTONICS;

GEOMETRY;

BASEMENT ROCK; COUNTRY ROCK; LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCE; LAVA; MAGMA; PYROCLASTIC DEPOSIT; SILL; STRESS; TECTONIC SETTING;

ALLAN HILLS; ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; VICTORIA LAND;

EID: 84857046019     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30455.1     Document Type: Article

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