Linking the Wrangellia flood basalts to the Galápagos hotspot

Abstract The Triassic volcanic rocks of Wrangellia erupted at an equatorial to tropical latitude that was within 3000 km of western North America. The mafic and ultramafic volcanic rocks are compositionally and isotopically similar to those of oceanic plateaux that were generated from a Pacific mant...

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Published in:Scientific Reports
Main Authors: Shellnutt, J. Gregory, Dostal, Jaroslav, Lee, Tung-Yi
Other Authors: Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2021
Subjects:
Multidisciplinary
Emperor Island
Pacific
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-88098-7
http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-88098-7.pdf
http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-88098-7

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