Volcanic Rifted Margins (GSA Special Paper 362)

Volcanic Rifted Margins......Page 1
ISBN 0-8137-2362-0......Page 2
Contents......Page 3
Preface......Page 5
Characteristics of volcanic rifted margins......Page 7
Crust and upper mantle structure in East Africa: Implications for the origin of Cenozoic rifting and volcanism and the formation of magmatic rifted margins......Page 21
Development of the Lebombo rifted volcanic marginof southeast Africa......Page 33
Extension and uplift of the northern Rio Grande Rift: Evidence from 40Ar/39Ar geochronology from the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, south-central Colorado and northern New Mexico......Page 53
Lithospheric mantle beneath Arabia: A Pan-African protolith modified by the Afar and older plumes, rather than a source for continental flood volcanism?......Page 71
Petrogenesis of the Late Cretaceous tholeiitic magmatism in the passive margins of northeastern Madagascar......Page 87
Silicic volcanism: An undervalued component of large igneous provinces and volcanic rifted margins......Page 103
Volcanology and facies architecture of flood basalts......Page 125
East Greenland coast-parallel dike swarm and its role in continental breakup......Page 139
Crustal architecture of South Atlantic volcanic margins......Page 165
Volcanic passive margin of Namibia: A potential fields perspective......Page 209
Petrophysical modeling of high seismic velocity crust at the Namibian volcanic margin......Page 227
Back cover / Contents......Page 237