Paleoelevation measurement on the basis of vesicular basalts

Paleoaltimetry: Geochemical and Thermodynamic Approaches

Volumn 66, Issue , 2018, Pages 195-213

  Sahagian, Dork ^a   Proussevitch, Alex ^b  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BASALT; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

BASALTIC LAVA FLOW; BUBBLE SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; COMPUTED X-RAY TOMOGRAPHIES; MULTIPLE SAMPLING; QUANTITATIVE ACCURACY; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; STANDARD ATMOSPHERES; TOMOGRAPHIC DATA;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

EID: 85061063147     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2138/rmg.2007.66.8     Document Type: Chapter

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