- Title
- Dyke swarms and associated lava formations in the northern Lebombo monocline, Karoo Large Igneous Province, South Africa
- Creator
- Klausen, Martin B
- Creator
- Marsh, Julian S
- Creator
- Watkeys, M K
- Date Issued
- 2006
- Date
- 2006
- Type
- text
- Type
- Abstracts
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132751
- Identifier
- vital:36880
- Description
- As one of the early classical examples of plume-generated Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs), the Karoo is characterized by a bulls-eye distribution of High-Ti basalts, picrites, and earliest nephelinites onto a conspicuous triple rift junction (i.e., Okavango dyke swarm and the two Mwenezi and Lebombo monoclines), surrounded by Low-Ti basalts. It is noted that this regional distribution between high-and low-Ti basalts within the Jurassic Karoo LIP differs from that of the Permian Emeishan LIP; thereby undermining the use of this particular feature as evidence for mantle plume involvement.
- Format
- 2 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- International Conference on Continental Volcanism
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Klausen, M.B., Marsh, J.S. and Watkeys, M.K., 2006, May. Dyke swarms and associated lava formations in the northern Lebombo monocline, Karoo Large Igneous Province, South Africa. In Abstract: IAVCEI Conference on Continental Basalt Volcanism.
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