Amirante island arc in the Indian Ocean: Data on the initial island-arc magmatism

Petrology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 53-65

  Tararin, I A ^a   Lelikov, E P ^b  

^a FAR EAST GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b IL ICHEV PACIFIC OCEANOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

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