Petrology and geochemistry of primitive lower oceanic crust from Pito Deep: Implications for the accretion of the lower crust at the Southern East Pacific Rise

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 154, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 575-590

  Perk, Neil W ^a   Coogan, Laurence A ^a   Karson, Jeffrey A ^b   Klein, Emily M ^c   Hanna, Heather D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d North Carolina Geological Survey   (United States)

Author keywords

EastPacific Rise; Magmachamber; Mid oceanridge; Pito Deep

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; MAGMA CHAMBER; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; OCEANIC CRUST; PETROLOGY; PLUTONIC ROCK;

EAST PACIFIC RISE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PITO DEEP;

EID: 34648814097     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-007-0210-z     Document Type: Article

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