Constraints on flux rates and mantle dynamics beneath island arcs from Tonga-Kermadec lava geochemistry

Nature

Volumn 389, Issue 6651, 1997, Pages 568-573

  Turner, Simon ^a   Hawkesworth, Chris ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUID FLUX; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; ISLAND ARC; ISLAND ARCS; LAVA; MANTLE WEDGE; SEDIMENT FLUX; SUBDUCTING SLAB; SUBDUCTION; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

ARTICLE; FLOW; GEOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; TONGA;

PACIFIC, TONGA-KERMADEC ARC;

EID: 0030845974     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/39257     Document Type: Article

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