Do decades of tropical rainfall affect the chemical compositions of basaltic lava flows in Mount Cameroon?

Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Volumn 141, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 195-223

  Chauvel, Catherine ^a   Dia, A N ^a   Bulourde, M ^a   Chabaux, F ^b   Durand, S ^b   Ildefonse, P ^c   Gerard, M ^d   Deruelle, B ^c   Ngounouno, I ^e  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE GRENOBLE   (France)

^b CGS   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE NGAOUNDÉRÉ   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

Basalt; Chemical weathering; Isotopic compositions; Major and trace element data; Mount Cameroon; Water rock interaction

Indexed keywords

BASALT; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); HYDRATION; LEAD; RAIN; VEGETATION; WEATHERING;

BASALTIC LAVA; LAVA FLOWS; TROPICAL RAINFALL EFFECTS; WEATHERING CONDITIONS;

VOLCANOES;

BASALT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAVA FLOW; MAGMA CHEMISTRY; RAINFALL; WEATHERING;

AFRICA; CAMEROON; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; MOUNT CAMEROON; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA; WORLD;

PSITTIROSTRA PSITTACEA;

EID: 14644387576     PISSN: 03770273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2004.10.008     Document Type: Article

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