High-temperature lithium isotope fractionation: Insights from lithium isotope diffusion in magmatic systems

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 257, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 609-621

  Parkinson, Ian J ^a   Hammond, Samantha J ^a   James, Rachael H ^a   Rogers, Nick W ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

diffusion; isotope fractionation; Li isotopes; magmatism; subduction zone

Indexed keywords

ION-MICROPROBE ANALYSES; MAGMATISM; PORPHYRITIC LAVAS; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

DIFFUSION; FRACTIONATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MINERALOGY; OLIVINE;

LITHIUM;

CLINOPYROXENE; DIFFUSION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; LITHIUM; MAGMATISM; NUMERICAL MODEL; OLIVINE; PHENOCRYST; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TROUGH;

MELANESIA; NEW GEORGIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOLOMON ISLANDS [(ISG) MELANESIA]; SOLOMON ISLANDS [SOLOMON ISLANDS (ISG)];

EID: 34247581187     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.03.023     Document Type: Article

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