Plume and Hotspots
1 Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation of Western
Canada and Alaska: A Plume-Generated Oceanic Plateau
Formed Along a Mid-Ocean Ridge Nucleated on a Late
Paleozoic Active Margin ...................................... 3
Jaroslav Dostal, J. Duncan Keppie, J. Brendan Murphy, and
Nicholas W.D. Massey
2 Deccan Traps Flood Basalt Province: An Evaluation of the
Thermochemical Plume Model .................................. 29
Gautam Sen and D. Chandrasekharam
3 A Review of the Radiometric Data Placing the Hawaiian-
Emperor Bend at 50 Ma; Placing Constraints on Hypotheses
Concerning the Origin of the Hawaiian-Emperor Volcanic
Chain ....................................................... 55
Ajoy K. Baksi
4 Geology, Petrology, and Geochemistry of the Basaltic Rocks
of the Axum Area, Northern Ethiopia ......................... 69
Miruts Hagos, Christian Koeberl, Kurkura Kabeto, and
Friedrich Koller
5 Geological and Geochemical Studies of Kolekole Cinder
Cone, Southwest Rift Zone, East Maui, Hawaii ................ 95
Nilanjan Chatterjee and Somdev Bhattacharji
6 New Seismic Evidence for the Origin of Arc and Back-Arc
Magmas ..................................................... 117
Dapeng Zhao, Sadato Ueki, Yukihisa Nishizono, and Akira
Yamada
Continental Flood Basalts
7 Mineral Compositions in the Deccan Igneous Rocks of
India: An Overview ......................................... 135
Leone Melluso and Sam F. Sethna
8 Recycling of Flow-Top Breccia Crusts into Molten
Interiors of Flood Basalt Lava Flows: Field and
Geochemical Evidence from the Deccan Traps ................. 161
Hetu C. Sheth, Jyotiranjan S. Ray, P. Senthil Kumar,
Raymond A. Duraiswami, Rudra Narayan Chatterjee, and
Trupti Gurav
9 Giant Plagioclase Basalt from Northern Part of Jhabua
District, Madhya Pradesh, Central India .................... 181
Biswajit Ghosh
10 Petrogenesis of Flood Basalts of the Narsingpur-Harrai-
Amarwara-Lakhnadon Section of Eastern Deccan Province,
India ...................................................... 191
Piyali Sengupta and Jyotisankar Ray
Arc Volcanism
11 The Intra-Oceanic Barren Island and Narcondam Arc
Volcanoes, Andaman Sea: Implications for Subduction
Inputs and Crustal Overprint of a Depleted Mantle
Source ..................................................... 241
Martin J. Streck, Frank Ramos, Aspen Gillam, Dhanapati
Haldar, and Robert A. Duncan
Extensional Volcanics
12 Polybaric Evolution of the Volcanic Rocks at Gabal
Nuqara, North Eastern Desert, Egypt ........................ 277
E.A. Khalaf, M. Khalaf, and F. Oraby
13 Textural Fingerprints of Magmatic, Metamorphic and
Sedimentary Rocks Associated with the Naga Hills
Ophiolite, Northeast India ................................. 321
N.C. Ghose and Fareeduddin
Charnockites and Anorthosites
14 Age and Origin of the Chilka Anorthosites, Eastern
Ghats, India: Implications for Massif Anorthosite
Petrogenesis and Break-up of Rodinia ....................... 355
Ramananda Chakrabarti, Asish R. Basu, Pradyot K.
Bandyopadhyay, and Haibo Zou
15 Geochemical and Geochronological Data from Charnockites
and Anorthosites from India's Kodaikanal-Palani Massif,
Southern Granulite Terrain, India .......................... 383
Elizabeth J. Catlos, Kaan Sayit, Poovalingam
Sivasubramanian, and Chandra S. Dubey
Mineralogy, Mineralization and Earth Dynamics
16 Kimberlites, Supercontinents and Deep Earth Dynamics:
Mid-Proterozoic India in Rodinia ........................... 421
Stephen E. Haggerty
17 Petrological Evolution and Emplacement of Siwana and
Jalor Ring Complexes of Malani Igneous Suite,
Northwestern Peninsular India .............................. 437
G. Vallinayagam and N. Kochhar
18 Occurrence and Origin of Scapolite in the Neoproterozoic
Lufilian-Zambezi Belt, Zambia: Evidence/Role of Brine-
Rich Fluid Infiltration During Regional Metamorphism ....... 449
Crispin Katongo, Friedrich Koller, Theodoros Ntaflos,
Christian Koeberl, and Francis Tembo
Index ......................................................... 475
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