Evidence from the rare-earth-element record of mantle melting for cooling of the tertiary Iceland plume

Nature

Volumn 395, Issue 6702, 1998, Pages 591-594

  Tegner, C ^a,b   Lesher, C E ^a,c,e   Larsen, L M ^a,d   Watt, W S ^a,d  

^a DANISH LITHOSPHERE CENTRE   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOOD BASALT; MANTLE PLUME; MELTING; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; RIFTING; TERTIARY; THERMAL STRUCTURE;

ARTICLE; GEOLOGY; ICELAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0032497484     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/26956     Document Type: Article

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