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Elsevier, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 3-4(174), p. 313-328
DOI: 10.1016/s0012-821x(99)00271-x
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40Ar/39Ar geochronology of flood basalts from the Kerguelen Archipelago, southern Indian Ocean: Implications for Cenozoic eruption rates of the Kerguelen plume
Journal article published in 2000 by
Kirsten K. Nicolaysen,
Frederic A. Frey,
Kip K. Hodges,
K. V. Hodges 
,
Dominique Weis ,
André Giret
,
Dominique Weis ,
André Giret
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Abstract
The 6500 km2 Kerguelen Archipelago formed on the nothern Kerguelen Plateau (NKP) (4 X 105 km2) which is a shallow submarine plateau belonging to the Kerguelen large igneous province in the southern Indian Ocean. Flood basalts make up 85% of the archipelago and are interpreted as the most recent volcanism (