Ancient recycled crust beneath the Ontong Java Plateau: Isotopic evidence from the garnet clinopyroxenite xenoliths, Malaita, Solomon Islands

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 259, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 134-148

  Ishikawa, Akira ^a   Kuritani, Takeshi ^a   Makishima, Akio ^a   Nakamura, Eizo ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

mantle plumes; Ontong Java Plateau; pyroxenite; recycled crust; xenoliths

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MANTLE; SUBDUCTION;

GEOCHEMISTRY; OCEANOGRAPHY; PETROLOGY; ROCKS;

TECTONICS;

BASALT; CHEMICAL REACTION; CRUSTAL RECYCLING; GARNET; HAFNIUM; HIGH PRESSURE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LEAD; MANTLE PLUME; NEODYMIUM; PERIDOTITE; PYROXENITE; STRONTIUM; TRACE ELEMENT; XENOLITH;

MALAITA; MELANESIA; ONTONG JAVA PLATEAU; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOLOMON ISLANDS [(ISG) MELANESIA]; SOLOMON ISLANDS [SOLOMON ISLANDS (ISG)];

EID: 34250636703     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.04.034     Document Type: Article

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