Melting of the Siberian mantle plume

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2209-2212

  Basu, Asish R ^a   Hannigan, Robyn E ^a,c   Jacobsen, Stein B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; ISOTOPES; MELTING; MOLTEN MATERIALS; NEODYMIUM; OLIVINE; TRACE ELEMENTS;

LAVA; LITHOSPHERE; RAPID DECOMPRESSION MELTING; THOLEIITIC PICRITIC MAGMAS;

GEOPHYSICS;

MAGMA CHEMISTRY; MANTLE PLUME; MELTING;

EID: 0032525747     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL01657     Document Type: Article

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