Petrology of early Tertiary nephelinites off mid-Norway. Additional evidence for an enriched endmember of the ancestral Iceland plume

Lithos

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 317-330

  Prestvik, Tore ^a   Torske, Tore ^b   Sundvoll, Bjørn ^c   Karlsson, Haraldur ^d  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Iceland plume; Isotope signatures; Jan Mayen fracture zone; Nephelinites; Rh nite

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000271586     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0024-4937(98)00088-7     Document Type: Article

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