New Samoan lavas from Ofu Island reveal a hemispherically heterogeneous high 3He/4He mantle

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 264, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 360-374

  Jackson, Matthew G ^a   Kurz, Mark D ^a   Hart, Stanley R ^a   Workman, Rhea K ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

3He 4He; basalt; C; DUPAL; FOZO; geochemistry; hotspot; mantle; PHEM; Samoa

Indexed keywords

CHRONDRITES; FOZO(FOCUS ZONE); HOTSPOT; MANTLE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE OCEAN ISLAND BASALTS;

BASALT; GEOPHYSICS; ISOTOPES; VOLCANOES;

GEOCHEMISTRY;

HOT SPOT; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAVA; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; OCEAN ISLAND BASALT;

PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; POLYNESIA; SAMOA;

EID: 36249032534     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.09.023     Document Type: Article

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