Olivine-spinifex basalt from the Tamba Belt, southwest Japan: Evidence for Fe- and high field strength element-rich ultramafic volcanism in Permian Ocean

Island Arc

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 493-503

  Ichiyama, Yuji ^a,b   Ishiwatari, Akira ^a   Koizumi, Kazuto ^a   Ishida, Yoshito ^a   Machi, Sumiaki ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Society of Gem and Precious Metal   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ferropicrite; Garnet pyroxenite melting; Komatiite; Olivine spinifex basalt; Permian mantle plume

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; BASALT; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; GARNET; GREENSTONE; MAGMA; MANTLE PLUME; OLIVINE; PERMIAN; PROVENANCE; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK; VOLCANISM;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

SPINIFEX;

EID: 34548303270     PISSN: 10384871     EISSN: 14401738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1738.2007.00590.x     Document Type: Article

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