Conditioned duality between supercontinental ‘assembly’ and ‘breakup’ LIPs

A compilation of 178 more precise ages on 10 potential Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) across southern Africa, is compared to Earth’s supercontinental cycles, where 5 more prominent LIP-events all formed during the assembly of supercontinents, rather than during breakup. This temporal bias is confirm...

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Main Author: Martin B. Klausen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-09-01
Series:Geoscience Frontiers
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987119302397