Petrology of the greenstones of the Lower Sorachi Group in the Sorachi-Yezo Belt, central Hokkaido, Japan, with special reference to discrimination between oceanic plateau basalts and mid-oceanic ridge basalts

Island Arc

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 122-141

  Nagahashi, Tohru ^a   Miyashita, Sumio ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aphyric basalts; High degree of partial melting; Lower Sorachi Group; Mid oceanic ridge basalts; Oceanic plateau basalts; Olivine clinopyroxene fractional crystallization

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; BASALT; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; GREENSTONE BELT; METAMORPHISM; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; PETROLOGY;

JAPAN;

EID: 0036317277     PISSN: 10384871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1738.2002.00361.x     Document Type: Article

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