Repeated, synchronous magmatism within Africa: Timing, magnetic reversals, and global tectonics

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 388, Issue , 2005, Pages 365-377

  Bailey, D Ken ^a   Woolley, Alan R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alkaline; Carbonatite; Core coupling; Episodes; Global events; Kimberlite; Rift; Superchron

Indexed keywords

GEOMAGNETISM; TECTONICS; TIMING CIRCUITS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

ALKALINE; CARBONATITES; EPISODES; GLOBAL EVENTS; KIMBERLITE; RIFT; SUPERCHRON;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

ALKALINITY; CARBONATITE; CRETACEOUS; DATA SET; DIAGRAM; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; KIMBERLITE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MAGMATISM; MESOZOIC; PLATE TECTONICS; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

AFRICA;

EID: 84874989770     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2388-4.365     Document Type: Article

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