Trace element evidence from seamounts for recycled oceanic crust in the Eastern Pacific mantle

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 148, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 471-483

  Niu, Yaoling ^b   Batiza, Rodey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Basalts; East Pacific Rise; Mantle source heterogeneity; Oceanic crust recycling; Seamounts; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; MANTLE SOURCE; OCEANIC CRUST; RECYCLING; SEAMOUNT; SEAMOUNTS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

PACIFIC, EAST PACIFIC RISE;

EID: 0030783725     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0012-821x(97)00048-4     Document Type: Article

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