Flood Basalts of Vestfjella: Jurassic Magmatism Across an Archaean-Proterozoic Lithospheric Boundary in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica
Continental flood basalts (CFBs) of Jurassic age make up the Vestfjella mountains of western Dronning Maud Land and demonstrate an Antarctic extension of the Karoo large igneous province. A detailed geochemical study of the 120-km-long Vestfjella range shows the CFB suite to consist mainly of three...
Published in: | Journal of Petrology |
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Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2000
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Online Access: | http://petrology.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/41/8/1271 https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/41.8.1271 |