Lithospheric mantle beneath Arabia: A Pan-African protolith modified by the Afar and older plumes, rather than a source for continental flood volcanism?

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 362, Issue , 2002, Pages 65-80

  Baker, Joel ^a,b   Chazot, Gilles ^b,c   Menzies, Martin A ^b   Thirlwall, Matthew ^b  

^a DANISH LITHOSPHERE CENTRE   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPES; TRACE ELEMENTS; VOLCANOES;

FLOOD VOLCANISMS; ISOTOPIC CHARACTERISTICS; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; MANTLE LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE XENOLITHS; QUATERNARY VOLCANOES; SOURCE CONTRIBUTIONS; SPINEL-LHERZOLITE;

FLOODS;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; ARCHEAN; GEOCHEMICAL SURVEY; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MANTLE PLUME; OLIGOCENE; PALEOFLOOD; PAN AFRICAN OROGENY; PROTOLITH; SHIELD; SPINEL;

AFRICA; ARABIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 84870939449     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2362-0.65     Document Type: Article

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