13. Evidence for Predominant Lateral Magma Flow Along Major Feeder-Dike Segments of the Eastern North America Swarm Based on Magnetic Fabric

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. 1. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Tectonics and Structure of Supercontinent Breakup
6. 2. Introduction 7
7. 3. Mobility of Pangea: Implications for Late Paleozoic and Early Mesozoic Paleoclimate 11
8. 4. Progress in Understanding the Structural Geology, Basin Evolution, and Tectonic History of the Eastern North American Rift System 21
9. 5. Tectonics of the Lantern Hill Fault, Southeastern Connecticut: Embryonic Rifting of Pangea Along the Central Atlantic Margin 65
10. 6. Estimates of Eroded Strata Using Borehole Vitrinite Reflectance Data, Triassic Taylorsville Rift Basin, Virginia: Implications for Duration of Synrift Sedimentation and Evidence of Structural Inversion 80
11. 7. Stress Regimes in the Newark Basin Rift: Evidence from Core and Downhole Data 104
12. 8. A Lagerstätte of Rift-Related Tectonic Structures from the Solite Quarry, Dan River–Danville Rift Basin 118
13. Part II. The Central Atlantic Large Igneous Province
14. 9. Introduction 137
15. 10. Flood Basalt Provinces of the Pangean Atlantic Rift: Regional Extent and Environmental Significance 141
16. 11. Geochemistry and Origin of Pangean and Rodinian Continental Flood Basalts 155
17. 12. A Geographic Trend for MgO-Standardized Major Oxides in Lower Mesozoic Olivine Tholeiites of the Southeastern United States 172
18. 13. Evidence for Predominant Lateral Magma Flow Along Major Feeder-Dike Segments of the Eastern North America Swarm Based on Magnetic Fabric 189
19. Contributors 207
20. Index 209