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Magmatism & Causes of Continental Break-up

Product Code: SP068
Series: GSL Special Publications - print copy
Author/Editor: Edited by B C Storey, T Alabaster & R J Pankhurst
Publication Date: 27 November 1992
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The first section of the volume is concerned mainly with models of magma generation and break­up processes. Critical to the debate is the origin of the large continental flood basalt provinces and the difficult task of interpreting geochemical signatures. The remaining sections present examples from the geological record. They provide essential feedback to the models and it is clear that some may need to be modified. The debate is, however, by no means over and many of the problems dis­cussed in this volume will be the focus of continuing research for some time. 

Type: Book
Ten Digit ISBN: 0-903317-83-4
Thirteen Digit ISBN: 978-0-903317-83-2
Publisher: GSL
Binding: Hardback
Pages: 404
Weight: 0.92 kg

Contents

Preface • WHITE, R.S. Magmatism during and after continental break-up • COFFIN, M.F. & ELDHOLM, O. Volcanism and continental break-up: a global compilation of large igneous provinces • MENZIES, M.A. The lower lithosphere as a major source for continental flood basalts: a re-appraisal • SAUNDERS. A.D., STOREY, M., KENT, R.W. & NORRY, M.J. Consequences of plume-lithosphere interactions • GIBSON, S.A., THOMPSON, R.N., LEAT, P.T., DICKIN, A.P., MORRISON, M.A., HENDRY, G.L. & MITCHELL, J.G. Asthenosphere-derived magmatism in the Rio Grande rift, western USA: implications for continental break-up • BAILEY, D.K. Episodic alkaline igneous activity across Africa: implications for the cuases of continental break-up • ANDERSON, D.L., YU-SHEN ZHANG & TANIMOTO, T. Plume heads, continental lithosphere, flood basalts and tomography • BOTT, M.H.P. The stress regime associated with continental break-up • COX, K.G. Karoo igneous activity, and the early stages of the break-up of Gondwanaland• STOREY, B.C., ALABASTER, T., HOLE, M.J., PANKHURST, R.J. & WEVER, H.E. Role of subduction-plate boundary forces during the initial stages of Gondwana break-up: evidence from the proto-Pacific margin of Antarctica • ELLIOT, D.H. Jurassic magmatism and tectonism associated with Gondwanaland break-up: an Antarctic perspective • BREWER, T.S., HERGT, J.M., HAWKESWORTH, C.J., REX, D. & STOREY, B.C. Coates Land dolerites and the generation of Antarctic continental flood basalts • RAPELA, C.W. & PANKHURST, R.J. The granites of northern Patagonia and the Gastre Fault System in relation to the break-up of Gondwana • HAWKESWORTH, C.J., GALLAGHER, K., KELLEY, S., MANTOVANI, M., PEATE, D.W., REGELOUS, M. & Rodgers, N.W. Pankhurst, R.J. & WEVER, H.E. Role of subduction-plate boundary forces during the initial stages of Gondwana break-up: evidence from the proto-Pacific margin of Antarctica • ELLIOT, D.H. Jurassic magmatism and tectonism associated with Gondwanaland break-up: an Antarctic perspective • BREWER, T.S., HERGT, J.M., HAWKESWORTH, C.J., REX, D. & STOREY, B.C. Coats Land dolerites and the generation of Antarctic continental flood basalts • RAPELA, C.W. & PANKHURST, R.J. The granites of northern Patagonia and the Gastre Fault System in relation to the break-up of Gondwana • HAWKESWORTH, C.J., GALLAGHER, K., KELLEY, S., MANTOVANI, M., PEATE, D.W., REGELOUS, M. & ROGERS, N.W. Parana magmatism and the opening of the South Atlantic • WILSON, M. Magmatism and continental rifting during the opening of the South Atlantic Ocean: a consequence of Lower Cretaceous super-plume activity? • LIGHT, M.P.R., MASLANYJ, M.P. & BANKS, N.L. New geophysical evidence for extensional tectonics on the divergent margin offshore Namibia • DEVEY, C.W. & STEPHENS, W.E. Deccan-related magmatism west of the Seychelles – India rift • MENZIES, M.A., BAKER, J., BOSENCE, D., DART, C., DAVISON, I., HURFORD, A., AL’KADASI, M. MCCLAY, K., NICHOLAS, G., AL’SUBBARY, A. & YELLAND, A. The timing of magmatism, uplift and crustal extension: preliminary observatons from Yemen • SKOGSEID, J., PEDERSEN, T., ELDHOLM, O. & LARSEN, B.T. Tectonism and magmatism during NE Atlantic continental break-up: the Voring Margin • LARSEN, L.M., PEDERSEN, A.K., PEDERSEN, G.K. & PIASECKI, S. Timing and duration of Early Tertiary volcanism in the North Atlantic: new evidence from West Greenland • GILL, R.C..O., PEDERSEN, A.K. & LARSEN, J.G. Tertiary picrites in West Greenland: melting at the periphery of a plume? • HOLM, P.M., HALD, N. & NIELSEN, T.F.D. Contrasts in composition and evolution of Tertiary CFB’s between West and East Greenland and their relations to the establishment of the Icelandic mantle plume • LARSEN, H.C. & MARCUSSEN, C. Sill-intrusion, flood basalt emplacement and deep crustal structure of the Scoresby Sund region, East Greenland • JOY, A.M. Right place, wrong time: anomalous post-rift subsidence in sedimentary basins around the North Atlantic Ocean

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