Generation and Polybaric Differentiation of East Greenland Early Tertiary Flood Basalts

• Published in: Journal of Petrology
• Main Authors: Fram, Miranda S., Lesher, Charles E.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 1997
• Subjects: Articles; Greenland; Scoresby; Scoresby Sund; Sund; East Greenland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://petrology.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/38/2/231-a; https://doi.org/10.1093/petroj/38.2.231

Major element, trace element, isotope, and petrographic studies of the basal volcanics in the Kangerdlugssuaq Fjord region of the East Greenland margin provide constraints on the generation and subsequent differentiation and contamination histories of magmas during the early stage of continental rif...