Insights into mid-ocean ridge basalt petrogenesis: U-series disequilibria from the Siqueiros Transform, Lamont Seamounts, and East Pacific Rise

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 104, Issue B6, 1999, Pages 13035-13048

  Lundstrom, C C ^a,c   Sampson, D E ^a   Perfit, M R ^b   Gill, J ^a   Williams, Q ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEQUILIBRIUM; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; PETROGENESIS; URANIUM;

EID: 0033542342     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jb900081     Document Type: Article

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