Deep Sea Drilling: Age and Composition of an Atlantic Basaltic Intrusion
- 26 March 1971
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 171 (3977) , 1244-1245
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.171.3977.1244
Abstract
The fission track age of a basalt recovered from beneath Campanian sediments on the lower western flank of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is (15.9 ± 1.6) x 106 years. The major element composition of a glassy margin of the basalt is similar to that of oceanic tholeiites except for a markedly higher potassium concentration.Keywords
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