Central European Cenozoic plume volcanism with OIB characteristics and indications of a lower mantle source

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 225-239

  Wedepohl, K Hans ^a   Baumann, Albrecht ^b  

^a Geochemisches Institut   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE PLUME; OCEAN ISLAND BASALT; PETROGENESIS;

EID: 0033456290     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004100050534     Document Type: Article

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