Oxygen isotopic systematics of an open-system magma chamber: An example from the Freetown Layered Complex of Sierra Leone

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 675-685

  Chalokwu, Christopher I ^a   Ripley, Edward M ^b   Park, Young Rok ^a  

^a BENEDICT COLLEGE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAYERED INTRUSION; MAGMA CHAMBER; MAGMA CHEMISTRY; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; THOLEIITIC BASALT;

SIERRA LEONE;

EID: 0032858390     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7037(99)00098-8     Document Type: Article

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