Petrology and geochemistry of the 25 MA Mt. Marion dufresne basaltic section on the Kerguelen Archipelago : constraining the transition from tholeiitic to mildly alkalic volcanism on a major oceanic island ...
Flood basalts on the - 6500 km² Kerguelen Archipelago in the southern Indian Ocean formed in an intraplate location on the Antarctic plate between 29-24 Ma as the Southeast Indian Ridge migrated from - 225 to - 400 km northeast relative to the Kerguelen hotspot. A - 700 m section of basalts exposed...
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ftdatacite:10.14288/1.0052331 2024-04-28T08:02:39+00:00 Petrology and geochemistry of the 25 MA Mt. Marion dufresne basaltic section on the Kerguelen Archipelago : constraining the transition from tholeiitic to mildly alkalic volcanism on a major oceanic island ... Annell, Heidi 2009 https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0052331 https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0052331 en eng University of British Columbia article-journal Text ScholarlyArticle 2009 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.14288/1.0052331 2024-04-02T09:44:49Z Flood basalts on the - 6500 km² Kerguelen Archipelago in the southern Indian Ocean formed in an intraplate location on the Antarctic plate between 29-24 Ma as the Southeast Indian Ridge migrated from - 225 to - 400 km northeast relative to the Kerguelen hotspot. A - 700 m section of basalts exposed at Mt. Marion Dufresne, in the southern part of the Plateau Central, contains both transitional-tholeiitic and mildly alkalic lavas (A.I. -0.8 to 2.0) that are geochemically and isotopically variable, and captures an important period of time (-1 Myr) near the end of flood basalt volcanism on the Kerguelen Archipelago. The basal 300 m of the section consists of low-MgO (<5.2 wt. %) predominantly aphyric lavas characterized by a limited range of "enriched" isotopic compositions (¹⁷⁶Hf/¹⁷⁷Hf =.0.28282-0.28287; ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr = 0.7048-0.7050; ¹⁴³Nd / ¹⁴⁴Nd = 0.5126-0.5127; ²⁰⁷Pb / ²⁰⁴Pb = 15.54-15.56) similar to compositions observed in the enriched 24-25 Ma mildly alkalic lavas to the east and southeast (e.g. Mt. ... Text Antarc* Antarctic DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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Flood basalts on the - 6500 km² Kerguelen Archipelago in the southern Indian Ocean formed in an intraplate location on the Antarctic plate between 29-24 Ma as the Southeast Indian Ridge migrated from - 225 to - 400 km northeast relative to the Kerguelen hotspot. A - 700 m section of basalts exposed at Mt. Marion Dufresne, in the southern part of the Plateau Central, contains both transitional-tholeiitic and mildly alkalic lavas (A.I. -0.8 to 2.0) that are geochemically and isotopically variable, and captures an important period of time (-1 Myr) near the end of flood basalt volcanism on the Kerguelen Archipelago. The basal 300 m of the section consists of low-MgO (<5.2 wt. %) predominantly aphyric lavas characterized by a limited range of "enriched" isotopic compositions (¹⁷⁶Hf/¹⁷⁷Hf =.0.28282-0.28287; ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr = 0.7048-0.7050; ¹⁴³Nd / ¹⁴⁴Nd = 0.5126-0.5127; ²⁰⁷Pb / ²⁰⁴Pb = 15.54-15.56) similar to compositions observed in the enriched 24-25 Ma mildly alkalic lavas to the east and southeast (e.g. Mt. ... |
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Petrology and geochemistry of the 25 MA Mt. Marion dufresne basaltic section on the Kerguelen Archipelago : constraining the transition from tholeiitic to mildly alkalic volcanism on a major oceanic island ... |
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Petrology and geochemistry of the 25 MA Mt. Marion dufresne basaltic section on the Kerguelen Archipelago : constraining the transition from tholeiitic to mildly alkalic volcanism on a major oceanic island ... |
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Petrology and geochemistry of the 25 MA Mt. Marion dufresne basaltic section on the Kerguelen Archipelago : constraining the transition from tholeiitic to mildly alkalic volcanism on a major oceanic island ... |
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Petrology and geochemistry of the 25 MA Mt. Marion dufresne basaltic section on the Kerguelen Archipelago : constraining the transition from tholeiitic to mildly alkalic volcanism on a major oceanic island ... |
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Petrology and geochemistry of the 25 MA Mt. Marion dufresne basaltic section on the Kerguelen Archipelago : constraining the transition from tholeiitic to mildly alkalic volcanism on a major oceanic island ... |
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petrology and geochemistry of the 25 ma mt. marion dufresne basaltic section on the kerguelen archipelago : constraining the transition from tholeiitic to mildly alkalic volcanism on a major oceanic island ... |
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