Plume mantle source heterogeneity through time: Insights from the Duarte Complex, Hispaniola, northeastern Caribbean

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Escuder Viruete, Javier ^a   Pérez Estaún, Andrés ^b   Contreras, Fernando ^c   Joubert, Marc ^d   Weis, Dominique ^e   Ullrich, Thomas D ^e   Spadea, Piera ^f  

^a INSTITUTO GEOLÓGICO Y MINERO DE ESPAÑA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^c INYPSA Informes y Proyectos SA   (Spain)

^d BRGM   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; HETEROGENEITY; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MANTLE PLUME; MANTLE SOURCE; METAVOLCANIC ROCK; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; RADIOMETER; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; COLOMBIA; CORDILLERA CENTRAL [COLOMBIA]; GREATER ANTILLES; HISPANIOLA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 34250646521     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JB004323     Document Type: Article

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