U-series isotopes and destructive plate margin magma genesis in the Lesser Antilles

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 142, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 191-207

  Turner, Simon ^a   Hawkesworth, Chris ^a   Van Calsteren, Peter ^a   Heath, Emily ^b   Macdonald, Ray ^b   Black, Stuart ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lesser Antilles; Magmas; Partial melting; Plate boundaries; Sr 87 Sr 86; Th U

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MAGMA; MAGMA GENESIS; MAGMATISM; PETROGENESIS; PLATE BOUNDARIES; STRONTIUM; SUBDUCTION; THORIUM; URANIUM;

CARIBBEAN, LESSER ANTILLES;

EID: 0029839406     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0012-821x(96)00078-7     Document Type: Article

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