Geochemical fingerprinting of oceanic basalts with applications to ophiolite classification and the search for Archean oceanic crust

Lithos

Volumn 100, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 14-48

  Pearce, Julian A ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Basalts; Greenstones; Ophiolites; Plate tectonics; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; BASALT; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DISPLACEMENT; GREENSTONE; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; MELTING; MODELING; OCEANIC CRUST; OPHIOLITE; PLATE TECTONICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TRACE ELEMENT;

EID: 37549065102     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2007.06.016     Document Type: Article

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