New 40Ar/39Ar ages and revised 40K/40Ar* data from nephelinitic–phonolitic volcanic successions of the Trindade Island (South Atlantic Ocean)

• Published in: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
• Main Authors: Pires, G., Bongiolo, E., Geraldes, M., Renac, C., Santos, A., Jourdan, Fred, Neumann, R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elservier 2016
• Subjects: Morro; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19943; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2016.09.020

The Trindade Island is located in the South Atlantic Ocean, 1170km from the Brazilian coast and represents the eastern end of the submarine E-W Vitória-Trindade Chain. This is interpreted as the Trindade plume track beneath the South American plate during the Cenozoic. Almeida (1961) recognized five...