40Ar-39Ar ages and isotope geochemistry of Cretaceous basalts in northern Madagascar: Refining eruption ages, extent of crustal contamination and parental magmas in a flood basalt province

Geological Magazine

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-17

  Cucciniello, C ^a   Melluso, L ^a   Jourdan, F ^b   Mahoney, J J ^c   Meisel, T ^d   Morra, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

Author keywords

ages; basalts; Cretaceous; isotope geochemistry; Madagascar

Indexed keywords

BASALT; EXPLORATORY GEOCHEMISTRY; LEAD; NIOBIUM; OXIDE MINERALS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TRACE ELEMENTS; ZIRCONIUM;

AGES; CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL CONTAMINATION; CRYSTALLIZATION PROCESS; ISOTOPE GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC VARIATIONS; MADAGASCAR;

ISOTOPES;

ANDESITE; ARGON-ARGON DATING; BASALT; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL CONTAMINATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; FLOOD BASALT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; IGNEOUS PROVINCE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LEAD ISOTOPE; MAGMATISM; MANTLE SOURCE; PARENT BODY; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

MADAGASCAR;

EID: 84870872211     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756812000088     Document Type: Article

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