The location of mantle-plume centers during the initial stages of Gondwana breakup

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 352, Issue , 2001, Pages 71-80

  Storey, Bryan C ^a   Leat, Philip T ^b   Ferris, Julie K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; GONDWANA; HOT SPOT; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCE; MANTLE PLUME; SUBSIDENCE; UPLIFT;

ANTARCTICA; INDIAN OCEAN; KAROO; MOZAMBIQUE BASIN; PATAGONIA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEDDELL SEA;

EID: 84871095907     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2352-3.71     Document Type: Review

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