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Mackensen, A., 1992, Neogene benthic foraminifers from the Southern Indian Ocean (Kerguelen Plateau): biostratigraphy and paleoecology, in J. S.W. Wise, A.P. Julson, R. Schlich and E. Thomas (eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 120: 649-674, Ocean Drilling Program, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.

Mackensen, A., and Berggren, W.A., 1992, Paleogene benthic foraminifers from the Southern Indian Ocean (Kerguelen Plateau): biostratigraphy and paleoecology, in J. S.W. Wise, A.P. Julson, R. Schlich and E. Thomas (eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 120: 603-630, Ocean Drilling Program, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.

Mackensen, A., Barrera, E., and Hubberten, H.-W., 1992, Neogene circulation in the Southern Indian Ocean: evidence from benthic foraminifers, carbonate data, and stable isotope analyses (Site 751), in J. S.W. Wise, A.P. Julson, R. Schlich and E. Thomas (eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 120: 867-880, Ocean Drilling Program, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.

MacKenzie, K., 1984, Crustal stratigraphy and realistic seismic data, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 121 p.

Macko, S.A., and Pereira, C.P.G., 1990, Neogene Paleoclimate Development of the Antarctic Weddell Sea Region: Organic Geochemistry, in P.F. Barker, J.P. Kennett, S. O'Connell and N.G. Pisias (eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 113: 881-900, Ocean Drilling Program, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.

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MacLeod, N., and Keller, G., 1991, How complete are Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary sections? A chronostratigraphic estimate based on graphic correlation, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 103:1439-1457.

MacLeod, N., and Keller, G., 1992, Reply on "Hiatus distributions and mass extinctions at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary", Geology, 20:381-382.

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Madile, M., and Monechi, S., 1991, Late Eocene to early Oligocene calcareous nannofossil assemblages from Sites 699 and 703, subantarctic South Atlantic Ocean, in P.F. Ciesielski, Y. Kristoffersen, B. Clement and T.C. Moore (eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 114: 179-192, Ocean Drilling Program, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.

Magde, L.S., and Smith, D.K., 1995, Seamount volcanism at the Reykjanes Ridge: Relationship to the Iceland hot spot, Journal of Geophysical Research, 100(B5): 8449-8468.

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Mahoney, J.J., 1987, An isotopic survey of Pacific oceanic plateaus: implications for their nature and origin, 43:207-220.

Mahoney, J.J., 1988, Deccan Traps, in J.D. Macdougall (eds.), Continental flood Basalts, 151-194, Kluwer Academic Publs., Dordrecht.

Mahoney, J.J., Natland, J.H., White, W.M., Poreda, R., Fisher, R.L., and Baxter, A.N., 1989, Isotopic and geochemical provinces of the western Indian Ocean spreading centers, Journal of Geophysical Research, 94:4033-4053.

Mahoney, J.J., Tarduno, J.A., and et al., 1990, Cretaceous volcanism and the formation of Ontong Java Plateau: new insights from ODP Leg 130, EOS Transactions, AGU, 71:1668.

Mahoney, J., Nicollet, C., and Dupuy, C., 1991, Madagascar basalts: tracking oceanic and continental sources, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 104:350-363.

Mahoney, J.J., and Spencer, K.J., 1991, Isotopic evidence for the origin of the Manihiki and Ontong Java oceanic plateaus, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 104:196-210.

Mahoney, J.J., Storey, M., Duncan, R.A., Spencer, K.J., and Pringle, M., 1992, Geochemistry and Age of the Ontong Java Plateau, in M. Pringle, W. Sager and W. Sliter (eds.), AGU Monogr. on the Mesozoic Pacific: The Schlanger Volume, AGU

Mahoney, J.J., Storey, M., Duncan, R.A., Spencer, K.J., and Pringle, M., 1993, Geochemistry and geochronology of Leg 130 basement lavas: nature and origin of the Ontong Java Plateau, in W.H. Berger, L.W. Kroenke and L.A. Mayer (eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 130: 3-22, Ocean Drilling Program, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.

Mahoney, J.J., and Peng, Z.X., 1994, Drillhole lavas from the northwestern Deccan Traps, and the evolution of Reunion plume mantle since the Late Cretaceous, EOS, Transactions, AGU,1994 Fall Meeting, 75(44): 726.

Mahoney, J.J., Jones, W.B., Frey, F.A., Salters, V.J.M., Pyle, D.G., and Davies, H.L., 1995, Geochemical characteristics of lavas from Broken Ridge, the Naturaliste Plateau and southernmost Kerguelen Plateau: Cretaceous plateau volcanism in the Southeast Indian Ocean, Chemical Geology, 120(3-4): 315-345. mantle plume; isotope geochemistry; Ninetyeast Ridge; triple junction; Rajmahal Traps; flood basalts; island lavas; Nauru Basin; origin; evolution

Maia, M., Dehghani, G.A., Diament, M., Francheteau, J., and Stoffers, P., 1994, Gravity Study of the Pitcairn-Easter Hotline, Geophysical Research Letters, 21(23): 2527-2530. Pacific; wavelength; convection; chain; plate; Cook

Malin, M.C., 1974, Lunar red spots: Possible pre-mare materials, 21:331-341. Moon, lunar maria, highlands, red spots, volcanism

Malmquist, D.L., 1991, Gal‡pagos Islands: A Holocene analogue to the Wallowa accreted terrane, western North America, Geology, 19:675-678.

Malmquist, D.L., 1992, Reply on "Gal‡pagos Islands: A Holocene analogue to the Wallowa accreted terrane, western North America", Geology, 20:661-662.

Malone, M.J., Baker, P.A., Burns, S.J., and Swart, P.K., 1990, Geochemistry of periplatform carbonate sediments, Leg 115, Site 716 (Maldives Archipelago, Indian Ocean), in R.A. Duncan, J. Backman, R.B. Dunbar and L.C. Peterson (eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 115: 647-660, Ocean Drilling Program, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.

Maluski, H., Coulon, C., Popoff, M., and Baudin, P., 1995, Ar-40/Ar-39 chronology, petrology and geodynamic setting of Mesozoic to

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Malz, H., 1989, Cenozoic Ostracodes of the V¿ring Plateau (ODP Leg 104, Sites 642, 643, and 644), in O. Eldholm, J. Thiede and E. Taylor (eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 104: 769-776, Ocean Drilling Program, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.

Mammerickx, J., 1989, Large-scale undersea features of the northeast Pacific, in E.L. Winterer, D.M. Hussong and R.W. Decker (eds.), The Eastern Pacific Ocean and Hawaii, The Geology of North America, N: 5-13, Geological Society of America, Boulder.

Mammerickx, J., 1992, The Foundation Seamounts: tectonic setting of a newly discovered seamount chain in the South Pacific, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 113:293-306.

Manga, M., Stone, H.A., and O'Connell, R.J., 1993, The interaction of plume heads with compositional discontinuities in the Earth's mantle, Journal of Geophysical Research, 98:19979-19990.

Manga, M., in press, Mixing of heterogeneities in the mantle: effect of viscosity differences, Geophysical Research Letters

Mangan, M.T., Cashman, K.V., and Newman, S., 1993, Vesiculation of basaltic magma during eruption, Geology, 21:157-160.

Manglik, A., Gliko, A.O., and Singh, R.N., 1995, Movement of the lithosphere-asthenosphere interface in response to erosion of thickened continental lithosphere: A moving boundary approach, Geophysical Journal International, 122(2): 479-488. Fourier series; heat conduction; lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary; metamorphism; moving boundary; time-varying erosion; UPLIFT; EVOLUTION; RATES, A Manglik, Univ Gottingen, Inst Geophys, D-37075 Gottingen, Germany

Manspeizer, W., and Cousminer, H.L., 1988, Late Triassic-Early Jurassic synrift basins of the U.S. Atlantic margin, in R.E. Sheridan and J.A. Grow (eds.), The geology of North America: The Atlantic continental margin, U.S., I-2: 197-216, Geological Society of America

Mantovani, M.S.M., Cordani, U.G., and Roisenberg, A., 1985, Geoqu’mica isot—pica em vulc‰nicas da bacia do Paran‡, e implica›es genŽticas associadas, Revista Brasiliera Geosciencas, 15:61-65.

Manum, S.B., Boulter, M.C., Gunnarsdottir, H., Rangnes, K., and Scholze, A., 1989, Eocene To Miocene Palynology of the Norwegian Sea (ODP Leg 104), in O. Eldholm, J. Thiede and E. Taylor (eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 104: 611-662, College Station, TX.

Mao, S., and Mohr, B.A.R., 1992, Late Cretaceous dinoflagellate cysts (? Sanonian-Maestrichtian) from the

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Mao, S., and S.W. Wise, J., 1993, Mesozoic calcareous nannofossils from Leg 130, in W.H. Berger, L.W. Kroenke and L.A. Mayer (eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 130: 85-92, Ocean Drilling Program, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.

Marcantonio, F., Zindler, A., Elliott, T., and Staudigel, H., 1995, Os isotope systematics of La Palma, Canary Islands: Evidence for recycled crust in the mantle source of HIMU ocean islands, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 133(3-4): 397-410. RE-OS; VOLCANIC-ROCKS; TRACE-ELEMENT; MANGANESE NODULES; GRAN-CANARIA; OSMIUM; CONSTRAINTS; BASALTS; PACIFIC; PB, F Marcantonio, Columbia Univ, Lamont Doherty Geol Observ, Palisades, NY 10964 USA

Marks, K.M., and Stock, J.M., 1995, Asymmetric seafloor spreading and short ridge jumps in the Australian-Antarctic discordance, Marine Geophysical Researches, 17(4): 361-373. Australian-Antarctic discordance; ridge jump; asymmetric seafloor spreading; OCEAN; ANOMALIES; EVOLUTION; ALTIMETRY; PACIFIC; GRAVITY; RATES; SOUTH, KM Marks, NOAA, Natl Ocean Serv, Geosci Lab, Silver Spring, MD 20910 USA

Marsh, B.D., 1981, On the crystallinity, probability of occurrence, and rheology of lava and magma, 78:85-98. volcanism, rheology, Hawaii, crystallization

Marsh, J.S., Hooper, P.R., Rehacek, J., Duncan, R.A., and Duncan, A.R., 1995, Stratigraphy and correlations amongst Karoo basalts: implications for evolution of the Karoo igneous province, (eds.), IUGG XXI General Assembly Abstracts Week A, Boulder, Colorado,

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Marsters, J.C., and Manghnani, M.H., 1993, Consolidation test results and porosity rebound of Ontong Java Plateau sediments, in W.H. Berger, L.W. Kroenke and L.A. Mayer (eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 130: 687-696, Ocean Drilling Program, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.

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Matsuoka, H., and Okada, H., 1990, Time-progressive morphometric changes of the genus Gephyrocapsa in the Quaternary sequence of the tropical Indian Ocean, Site 709, in R.A. Duncan, J. Backman, R.B. Dunbar and L.C. Peterson (eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 115: 255-270, Ocean Drilling Program, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.

Matsuoka, A., 1992, Jurassic and Early Cretaceous radiolarians from Leg 129, Sites 800 and 801, western Pacific Ocean, in R.L. Larson, Y. Lancelot, A. Fisher and E.L. Winterer (eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 129: 203-220, Ocean Drilling Program, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.

Matyska, C., Moser, J., and Yuen, D.A., 1994, The potential influence of radiative heat transfer on the formation of megaplumes in the lower mantle, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 125(1-4): 255-266. convecting viscous mantle; thermal evolution; phase-transitions; earths mantle;hotspots; heterogeneity; topography; depth; model; instabilities

Mayer, L.A., Jansen, E., Backman, J., and Takayama, T., 1993, Climatic cyclicity at Site 806: the GRAPE record, in W.H. Berger, L.W. Kroenke and L.A. Mayer (eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 130: 623-640, College Station, TX, College Station, TX.

Mayer, H., and Tarduno, J.A., 1993, Paleomagnetic investigation of the igneous sequence, Site 807, Ontong Java Plateau, and a discussion of Pacific true polar wander, in W.H. Berger, L.W. Kroenke and L.A. Mayer (eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 130: 51-62, Ocean Drilling Program, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.

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Mazzucchelli, M., Rivalenti, G., Piccirillo, E.M., Girardi, V.A.V., Civetta, L., and Petrini, R., 1995, Petrology of the Proterozoic mafic dyke swarms of Uruguay and constraints on their mantle source composition, Precambrian Research, 74(3): 177-194. CONTINENTAL FLOOD BASALTS; SOUTHWEST INDIAN RIDGE; SR-ND ISOTOPES; CRUSTAL CONTAMINATION; SOUTHERN BRAZIL; TRACE-ELEMENT; DIKE SWARMS; PETROGENESIS; GEOCHEMISTRY; MAGMATISM

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McCarthy, J., and Parsons, T., 1994, Insights into the kinematic Cenozoic evolution of the Basin and Range-Colorado Plateau transition from coincident seismic refraction and reflection data, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 106:747-759.

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McKenzie, D., and O'Nions, R.K., 1991, Partial melt distributions from inversion of Rare Earth element concentrations, Journal of Petrology, 32(5): 1021-1091.

McMillan, N.J., 1985, Petroleum resources of North American Arctic basins, American Association of Petroleumg Geologists Bulletin, 69(2): 287. Alaska, economic-geology; petroleum, Northwest-Territories; Arctic-Ocean; Western-U.S.; United-States; Canada, offshore, Arctic-region; Polar-regions; Wandel-Sea; Chukchi-Sea; traps, resources, Beaufort-Sea; Baffin-Bay; exploration, hydrocarbons

McMillan, K., Cross, R.W., and Long, P.E., 1987, Two-stage vesiculation in the Cohassett flow of the Grande Ronde Basalt, south-central Washington, 15:809-812. volcanism, flood basalts, vesiculation, Columbia River Basalts

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McNutt, M.K., and Judge, A.V., 1990, The superswell and mantle dynamics beneath the South Pacific, Science, 248:969-975.

Mead, G.A., Hodell, D.A., MŸller, D.W., and Ciesielski, P.F., 1991, Fine-fraction carbonate oxygen and carbon isotope results from Site 704: implications for movement of the Polar Front during the late Pliocene, in P.F. Ciesielski, Y. Kristoffersen, B. Clement and T.C. Moore (eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 114: 437-458, Ocean Drilling Program, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.

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Medvedev, A.Y., and Almukhamedov, A.I., 1995, Geochemistry of silver in the flood basalts of platforms, Doklady Akademii Nauk, 344(1): 101-105. flood basalts, silver

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Meisel, T., KrŠhenbŸhl, U., and Nararov, M.A., 1995, Combined osmium and strontium isotopic study of the Cretaceous-Teritary boundary at Sumbar, Turkmenistan: A test for an impact vs. a volcanic hypothesis, Geology, 23(4): 313-316.

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