Grand Comore Island: A well-constrained "low 3He/4He" mantle plume

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 233, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 391-409

  Class, Cornelia ^a   Goldstein, Steven L ^a,c   Stute, Martin ^a,d   Kurz, Mark D ^b   Schlosser, Peter ^a,c  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d Barnard College of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

Grande Comore Island; Helium isotopes; Mantle geochemistry; Mantle plumes; Noble gas

Indexed keywords

LAVA FLOW; OCEAN BASINS; PLUME-LITHOSPHERE INTERACTIONS; SHALLOW LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE;

BASALT; CATCHMENTS; EARTH (PLANET); ISOTOPES; LEAD; MINERALOGY; NEODYMIUM; STRONTIUM; TRACE ELEMENTS;

THERMAL PLUMES;

GEOCHEMISTRY; HELIUM; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MANTLE PLUME; NOBLE GAS;

COMOROS; GRANDE COMORE; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 18244397932     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.02.029     Document Type: Article

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