Systematics of U-series nuclides in primitive lavas from the 1730-36 eruption on Lanzarote, Canary Islands, and implications for the role of garnet pyroxenites during oceanic basalt formations

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 162, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 137-151

  Sigmarsson, Olgeir ^a   Carn, Simon ^a   Carracedo, Juan Carlos ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Volcanological Stn of the Canary I   (Spain)

Author keywords

Basalts; Lanzarote; Pyroxenite; Uranium disequilibrium

Indexed keywords

GARNET; LAVA; OCEAN ISLAND BASALT; PYROXENITE; RADIONUCLIDE; URANIUM;

CANARY ISLANDS;

EID: 0032436752     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(98)00162-9     Document Type: Article

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