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Aug 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993sci...261..902b&link_type=abstract
Science, Volume 261, Issue 5123, pp. 902-906
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Several alkalic igneous complexes of nephelinite-carbonatite affinities occur in extensional zones around a region of high heat flow and positive gravity anomaly within the continental flood basalt (CFB) province of Deccan, India. Biotites from two of the complexes yield 40Ar/39Ar dates of 68.53 ± 0.16 and 68.57 ± 0.08 million years. Biotite from a third complex, which intrudes the flood basalts, yields an 40Ar/39Ar date of 64.96 ± 0.11 million years. The complexes thus represent early and late magmatism with respect to the main pulse of CFB volcanism 65 million years ago. Rocks from the older complexes show a ^3He/^4He ratio of 14.0 times the air ratio, an initial 87Sr/86Sr ratio of 0.70483, and other geochemical characteristics similar to ocean island basalts; the later alkalic pulse shows isotopic evidence of crustal contamination. The data document 3.5 million years of incubation of a primitive, high-^3He mantle plume before the rapid eruption of the Deccan CFB.
Basu Asish R.
Dasgupta Deb K.
Poreda Robert J.
Renne Paul R.
Teichmann Friedrich
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