Cretaceous basalts in Madagascar and the transition between plume and continental lithosphere mantle sources

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 100, Issue , 1997, Pages 95-122

  Storey, Michael ^a   Mahoney, John J ^b   Saunders, Andrew D ^c  

^a DANISH LITHOSPHERE CENTRE   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85010596035     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/GM100p0095     Document Type: Chapter

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