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Eastern Greenland basalts and their supposed plume origin

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IT has been suggested1,2 that the eastern Greenland flood basalts had their origin in plume activity centred about a triple junction of which Kangerdlugssuaq (Fig. 1) is the failed arm. The suggestion is reviewed here in light of the petrological characteristics and spatial distribution of the basalts.

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  1. Department of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB9 1AS, UK

    P. E. BROWN

  2. Scottish Universities Research and Reactor Centre, East Kilbride, Glasgow, UK

    J. E. WHITLEY

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BROWN, P., WHITLEY, J. Eastern Greenland basalts and their supposed plume origin. Nature 260, 232–234 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/260232b0

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