High-Mg andesites and related lavas from southwest Puerto Rico (Greater Antilles Island Arc): Petrogenetic links with emplacement of the Late Cretaceous Caribbean mantle plume

Lithos

Volumn 98, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 1-26

  Jolly, Wayne T ^a   Schellekens, Johannes H ^b   Dickin, Alan P ^c  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Caribbean mantle plume; High Mg andesite; Slab melt; Supra subduction zone; Trace element and isotope geochemistry

Indexed keywords

ANDESITE; BASALT; CRETACEOUS; EMPLACEMENT; GABBRO; ISLAND ARC; LAVA; MANTLE PLUME; MELTING; PETROGENESIS; PETROLOGY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; PUERTO RICO;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 34548598340     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2007.01.011     Document Type: Article

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