Rajmahal basalts, eastern India: Mantle sources and melt distribution at a volcanic rifted margin

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 100, Issue , 1997, Pages 145-182

  Kent, W ^a   Saunders, A D ^a   Kempton, P D ^b   Ghose, N C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^c PATNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

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EID: 85040228775     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/GM100p0145     Document Type: Chapter

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