Origin and evolution of the Ontong Java Plateau / edited by J. Godfrey Fitton [and others].
- Published:
- London : The Geological Society, 2004.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 374 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
- Additional Creators:
- Fitton, J. G.
- Series:
- Contents:
- Origin and evolution of the Ontong Java Plateau: introduction / J. Godfrey Fitton, John J. Mahoney, Paul J. Wallace and Andrew D. Saunders -- Geological Evolution and Palaeomagnetism -- Motion of the Ontong Java Plateau in the hot-spot frame of reference: 122 Ma-present / L. W. Kroenke, P. Wessel and A. Sterling -- Modelled palaeolatitudes for the Louisville hot spot and the Ontong Java Plateau / Maria Antretter, Peter Riisager, Stuart Hall, Xixi Zhao and Bernhard Steinberger -- Early Cretaceous Pacific palaeomagnetic pole from Ontong Java Plateau basement rocks / Peter Riisager, Stuart Hall, Maria Antretter and Xixi Zhao -- Rock magnetic results from Ocean Drilling Program Leg 192: implications for Ontong Java Plateau emplacement and tectonics of the Pacific / Xixi Zhao, Maria Antretter, Peter Riisager and Stuart Hall -- The geology of north and central Malaita, Solomon Islands: the thickest and most accessible part of the world's largest (Ontong Java) ocean plateau / Michael G. Petterson -- Biostratigraphy -- Lower Cretaceous planktonic foraminiferal and nannofossil biostratigraphy of Ontong Java Plateau sites from DSDP Leg 30 and ODP Leg 192 / P. J. Sikora and J. A. Bergen -- Calcareous nannofossils from ODP Leg 192, Ontong Java Plateau / J. A. Bergen -- Petrology and Geochemistry -- Pin-pricking the elephant: evidence on the origin of the Ontong Java Plateau from Pb-Sr-Hf-Nd isotopic characteristics of ODP Leg 192 basalts / M. L. G. Tejada, J. J. Mahoney, P. R. Castillo, S. P. Ingle, H. C. Sheth and D. Weis -- Origin and evolution of magmas on the Ontong Java Plateau / J. Godfrey Fitton and Marguerite Godard -- Partial melting below the Ontong Java Plateau / Claude Herzberg -- Experimental petrology of basement lavas from Ocean Drilling Program Leg 192: implications for differentiation processes in Ontong Java Plateau magmas / Takashi Sano and Shigeru Yamashita -- Large igneous province magma petrogenesis from source to surface: platinum-group element evidence from Ontong Java Plateau basalts recovered during ODP Legs 130 and 192 / William J. Chazey and Clive R. Neal -- Volatiles in submarine basaltic glasses from the Ontong Java Plateau (ODP Leg 192): implications for magmatic processes and source region compositions / Julie Roberge, Rosalind V. White and Paul J. Wallace -- Low-temperature alteration of submarine basalts from the Ontong Java Plateau / Neil R. Banerjee, José Honnorez and Karlis Muehlenbachs -- Volcaniclastic Rocks -- Accretionary-lapilli-bearing pyroclastic rocks at ODP Leg 192 Site 1184: a record of subaerial phreatomagmatic eruptions on the Ontong Java Plateau / Thor Thordarson -- Phreatomagmatic eruptions on the Ontong Java Plateau: chemical and isotopic relationship to Ontong Java Plateau basalts / Rosalind V. White, Paterno R. Castillo, Clive R. Neal, J. Godfrey Fitton and Marguerite Godard -- Phreatomagmatic eruptions on the Ontong Java Plateau: an Aptian 40Ar/39Ar age for volcaniclastic rocks at ODP Site 1184 / Lynne M. Chambers, Malcolm S. Pringle and J. Godfrey Fitton -- Compositional variability in lavas from the Ontong Java Plateau: results from basalt clasts within the volcaniclastic succession at Ocean Drilling Program Site 1184 / John T. Shafer, Clive R. Neal and Paterno R. Castillo -- Geochemistry of Cretaceous volcaniclastic sediments in the Nauru and East Mariana basins provides insights into the mantle sources of giant oceanic plateaus / Paterno R. Castillo.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 1862391572
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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