The Cameroon Line: analysis of an intraplate magmatic province transecting both oceanic and continental lithospheres: constraints, controversies and models

MS Njome, MJ de Wit - Earth-Science Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
The near 1700 km long Cameroon Line (CL) is an African intraplate 'fan-shaped'alkaline
volcano-plutonic rift zone of variable width (< 200 km), with a ca. 66 Ma history of magmatic …

[图书][B] Theory of the Earth

DL Anderson - 1989 - authors.library.caltech.edu
Considerations from cosmochemistry and the study of meteorites permit us to place only
very broad bounds on the chemistry of the Earth's interior. These tell us little about the …

The Cameroon line, West Africa, and its bearing on the origin of oceanic and continental alkali basalt

JG Fitton, HM Dunlop - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 1985 - Elsevier
The Cameroon line is a unique within-plate volcanic province which straddles a continental
margin. It consists of a chain of Tertiary to Recent, generally alkaline volcanoes stretching …

Insights into the source of magmatic hot-lines: Forty years of geophysical studies of the Cameroon Volcanic Line

A Adams - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The Cameroon Volcanic Line (CVL) of west Africa poses many challenges to common
models of mantle processes and volcanic system genesis. Although the CVL superficially …

The Cameroon line, West Africa: a comparison between oceanic and continental alkaline volcanism

JG Fitton - Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 1987 - lyellcollection.org
The Cameroon line is the only known intra-plate alkaline volcanic province which straddles
a continental margin. It consists of a chain of Tertiary to Recent volcanoes stretching from the …

Isotopic variations with distance and time in the volcanic islands of the Cameroon line: evidence for a mantle plume origin

DC Lee, AN Halliday, JG Fitton, G Poli - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 1994 - Elsevier
The oceanic sector of the Cameroon line consists of three volcanic islands: Principe, São
Tomé and Pagalu. New 40 Ar 39 Ar data for Pagalu basalts, combined with published K …

[图书][B] Origin of igneous rocks: the isotopic evidence

G Faure - 2013 - books.google.com
his book is intended for graduate students of the Earth Sciences who require a T
comprehensive examination of the origins of igneous rocks as recorded by the isotope …

Age progressive volcanism in the Comores Archipelago, western Indian Ocean and implications for Somali plate tectonics

CM Emerick, RA Duncan - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 1982 - Elsevier
Abstract The Comores Islands together with the Tertiary volcanic province of northern
Madagascar form a sublinear trend of alkali olivine basalt shield volcanoes across the …

Mantle dynamics: a Nd, Sr, Pb and O isotopic study of the Cameroon line volcanic chain

AN Halliday, AP Dickin, AE Fallick… - Journal of Petrology, 1988 - academic.oup.com
The Cameroon line comprises a 1600-km long Y-shaped chain of< 30 my old volcanoes
and< 70 my old plutons extending into mainland Africa from the Atlantic island of Pagalu …

The Benue trough and Cameroon line—a migrating rift system in West Africa

JG Fitton - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 1980 - Elsevier
The remarkable similarity in shape between the Benue trough and the volcanic Cameroon
line suggest that they are related to a common “Y”-shaped hot zone in the asthenosphere …