Boninites and adakites from the northern termination of the Tonga Trench: Implications for adakite petrogenesis

Journal of Petrology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 697-715

  Falloon, Trevor J ^a   Danyushevsky, Leonid V ^a   Crawford, Anthony J ^a   Meffre, Sebastian ^a   Woodhead, Jon D ^b   Bloomer, Sherman H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adakites; Boninites; Samoa; Slab edge; Slab melting; Tonga

Indexed keywords

ADAKITE; BONINITE; DREDGING; FAULT; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; MANTLE PLUME; MODELING; PARTIAL MELTING; PETROGENESIS; PLATE BOUNDARY; TECTONIC SETTING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

PACIFIC OCEAN; TONGA TRENCH;

EID: 41749124602     PISSN: 00223530     EISSN: 14602415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/petrology/egm080     Document Type: Article

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