Melting of a subducting slab and production of high-Mg andesite magmas: Unusual magmatism in SW Japan at 13-15 Ma

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 2271-2274

  Furukawa, Y ^a   Tatsumi, Y ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOLOGY; MELTING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTS; TEMPERATURE; VOLCANOES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

HIGH MAGNESIUM ANDESITE MAGMAS; MANTLE; OCEANIC CRUST; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; SUBDUCTING SLAB;

VOLCANIC ROCKS; TECTONICS;

ANDESITE; MELTING; PETROGENESIS; SUBDUCTION;

JAPAN;

CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; HIGH-MG ANDESITES; MANTLE TEMPERATURES; OCEANIC CRUST; PARTIAL MELTING; SUBDUCTING PLATE; SUBDUCTING SLABS; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

EID: 0033430934     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900512     Document Type: Article

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