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Coeval large-scale magmatism in the Kalahari and Laurentian cratons during Rodinia assembly

Hanson, R. E., Crowley, J. L., Bowring, S. A., Ramezani, J., Gose, W. A., Dalziel, I. W. D., Pancake, J. A., Seidel, E. K., Blenkinsop, Thomas G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9684-0749 and Mukwakwami, J. 2004. Coeval large-scale magmatism in the Kalahari and Laurentian cratons during Rodinia assembly. Science 304 (5674) , pp. 1126-1129. 10.1126/science.1096329

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Abstract

We show that intraplate magmatism occurred 1106 to 1112 million years ago over an area of two million square kilometers within the Kalahari craton of southern Africa, during the same magnetic polarity chron as voluminous magmatism within the cratonic core of North America. These contemporaneous magmatic events occurred while the Rodinia supercontinent was being assembled and are inferred to be parts of a single large igneous province emplaced across the two cratons. Widespread intraplate magmatism during Rodinia assembly shows that mantle upwellings required to generate such provinces may occur independently of the supercontinent cycle.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Earth and Environmental Sciences
Subjects: Q Science > QE Geology
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
ISSN: 0036-8075
Last Modified: 24 Oct 2022 12:09
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/50682

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