Kerguelen Hotspot Magma Output since 130 Ma

• Published in: Journal of Petrology
• Main Authors: COFFIN, MILLARD F., PRINGLE, M. S., DUNCAN, R. A., GLADCZENKO, T. P., STOREY, M., MÜLLER, R. D., GAHAGAN, L. A.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2002
• Subjects: ARTICLES; Antarctic; Broken Ridge; Indian; Kerguelen; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://petrology.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/43/7/1121; https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/43.7.1121

The Kerguelen hotspot (Indian Ocean) has produced basalt for ∼130 Myr, among the longest known volcanic records from a single source. New and published 40 Ar/ 39 Ar age determinations from the Kerguelen Plateau, Broken Ridge, Rajmahal Traps, and Bunbury basalts, and of Indian and Antarctic dikes hel...