Melt generation models for the Auckland volcanic field, New Zealand: Constraints from U-Th isotopes

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 149, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 67-84

  Huang, Yiming ^a   Hawkesworth, Chris ^a   Van Calsteren, Peter ^a   Smith, Ian ^b   Black, Philippa ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Alkali basalts; Basanites; Geochemistry; Mantle melting

Indexed keywords

HIMU; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; OIB; QUATERNARY; THORIUM; URANIUM; VOLCANIC ROCK;

NEW ZEALAND, NORTH ISLAND, AUCKLAND VOLCANIC FIELD;

EID: 0030663443     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0012-821x(97)00064-2     Document Type: Article

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