Paleomagnetism and Geochemistry of Basalts in the North American Cordillera, Davis Strait, and Antarctica

• Main Author: Biasi, Joseph Anthony
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: California Institute of Technology 2021
• Subjects: ophiolite; north atlantic; paleomagnetism; igneous; Geochemistry; FOS Earth and related environmental sciences; volcanology; dike; Basalt; petrology; large igneous province; volcano; mass extinction; flood basalt; magnetic field; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Baffin Island; Ross Island; Hess; Antarc*; Antarctica; Baffin; Brooks Range; Davis Strait; James Ross Island; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.7907/hbs7-aw47; https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:06022021-013516525

Chapter 1 is an introduction to the thesis and contains a brief summary on how the chapters relate to each other. In Chapter 2, we present new whole-rock geochemical data from the Brooks Range Ophiolite (BRO) together with new mineral chemistry data from the BRO, South Sandwich forearc, Izu-Bonin fo...