Silicic magmas of Protector Shoal, South Sandwich arc: Indicators of generation of primitive continental crust in an island arc

Geological Magazine

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 179-190

  Leat, P T ^a   Larter, R D ^a   Millar, I L ^b  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Geochemistry; Island arcs; Pumice; South Atlantic; Submarine volcanoes

Indexed keywords

ABRASIVES; BASALT; BINARY ALLOYS; GEOCHEMISTRY; MELTING; NEODYMIUM ALLOYS; SEISMIC WAVES; STRONTIUM ALLOYS; TRACE ELEMENTS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; GEOCHEMICAL DATA; INTRA-OCEANIC ARC; ISLAND ARC; PARTIAL MELTING; SEISMIC SURVEYS; SOUTH ATLANTIC;

VOLCANOES;

BASALT; CONTINENTAL CRUST; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; ISLAND ARC; MAGMA; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; PARTIAL MELTING; PUMICE; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; TRACE ELEMENT; VOLCANO;

ANTARCTICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS;

EID: 33846276925     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756806002925     Document Type: Article

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