Interaction of the rifting East Greenland margin with a zoned ancestral Iceland plume

Geology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 481-484

  Barker, Abigail K ^a   Barker, Joel A ^b   Peate, David W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

East Greenland; Flood basalts; Iceland hotspot; Pb isotopes

Indexed keywords

BASALT; ISOTOPES; LEAD; NEODYMIUM; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

FLOOD BASALTS; ICELAND HOTSPOT; LEAD ISOTOPES; RIFTING;

GEOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; FLOOD BASALT; HOT SPOT; LEAD ISOTOPE; MANTLE PLUME; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; RIFTING;

ARCTIC; EAST GREENLAND; GREENLAND; ICELAND;

EID: 84978021285     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G22366.1     Document Type: Article

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