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Age and Nature of Basalts from the Tyrrhenian Abyssal Plain
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1978
Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project
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Geochemical and petrological analyses of samples cored in the basement of the Tyrrhenian Abyssal Plain demonstrate that this basin is floored by a sequence of at least 250 meters of basalts with a clear oceanic tholeiitic affinity. The oldest recovered basalts have a K-Ar age of 7.3 ±1.3 m.y. These data strongly favor the hypothesis of an origin by back-arc spreading for the Tyrrhenian Abyssal Plain and imply that the formation of oceanic crust was already active in pre-Messinian times.
doi:10.2973/dsdp.proc.42-1.118.1978
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