- Title
- Basalt geochemistry and tectonic discrimination within continental flood basalt provinces
- Creator
- Marsh, Julian S
- Date Issued
- 2003
- Date
- 2003
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140412
- Identifier
- vital:37886
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0377-0273(87)90035-7
- Description
- Continental flood basalts are usually regarded as a single tectonomagmatic entity but frequently quoted examples exhibit a variety of tectonic settings. In one well-studied, classic, flood basalt province, the Mesozoic Karoo province of southern Africa, magmatism occurred in the following tectonic settings: (a) continental rifting leading to ocean-floor spreading in the South Atlantic Ocean (Etendeka suite of Namibia); (b) stretched continental lithosphere and rifting not leading directly to ocean-floor formation (Lebombo suite of southeastern Africa); and (c) an a-tectonic, within-plate, continental setting characterized by an absence of faulting or warping (Lesotho highlands and Karoo dolerites of South Africa).
- Format
- 15 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
- Relation
- Marsh, J.S., 1987. Basalt geochemistry and tectonic discrimination within continental flood basalt provinces. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 32(1-3), pp.35-49.
- Relation
- Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research volume 32 number 1-3 35 49 June 2003 0377-0273
- Rights
- Elsevier
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