Mantle Plumes: Their Identification Through Time

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Richard E. Ernst, Kenneth L. Buchan
Geological Society of America, Jan 1, 2001 - Science - 593 pages
 

Contents

Introduction
1
Identification of ancient mantle plumes
5
A key to understanding older examples
23
Evidence from the Tertiary Quaternary volcanic province of western and central Europe
37
Progenitors of some ophiolites?
59
of Gondwana breakup
71
Implications for plumes rift associations and resurfacing
81
Contractional effects of mantle plumes on Earth Mars and Venus
103
The sedimentary record of mantleplume uplift
227
mantle plumes
247
Relationships to mantleplume activity
267
Deepmantle plumes and ore deposits
291
Paleomagnetic tests of ideas on the source of the Fe in early Precambrian iron formations
323
Evidence from greenstone belt geochemistry
341
Geochemistry of basalts and komatiites of the Pilbara Craton Australia
359
Rifts of the world
389

The postArchean Earth and Mars
141
Implications for the evolution of martian shield volcanoes and mantle plumes
165
Elevation as indicator of mantleplume activity
183
Large mafic magmatic events through time and links to mantleplume heads
483
Index
577
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