Two mantle plumes beneath the East African rift system: Sr, Nd and Pb isotope evidence from Kenya Rift basalts

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 176, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 387-400

  Rogers, Nick ^a   Macdonald, Ray ^b   Fitton, J Godfrey ^c   George, Rhiannon ^a   Smith, Martin ^d   Barreiro, Barbara ^e  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^e NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Basalts; Kenya Rift valley; Lithosphere; Mantle plumes

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; LEAD; MANTLE PLUME; NEODYMIUM; RIFT ZONE; STRONTIUM;

KENYA;

EID: 0034732280     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(00)00012-1     Document Type: Article

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