On the recent bimodal magmatic processes and their rates in the Torfajökull-Veidivötn area, Iceland

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 269, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 388-398

  Zellmer, G F ^a,b   Rubin, K H ^a   Gronvold K ^c   Jurado Chichay, Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

crustal melting; petrogenesis; rhyolite volcanism; rift zone; U series disequilibrium

Indexed keywords

BASALT; ISOTOPES; PETROGRAPHY; TRACE ELEMENTS;

CRUSTAL MELTING; PHENOCRYSTS; RHYOLITE VOLCANISM; RIFT ZONE;

VOLCANOES;

BASALT; BIMODAL ASSOCIATION; DIKE SWARM; FISSURE; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAVA; MAGMA; MAGMATIC DIFFERENTIATION; PARTIAL MELTING; PETROGENESIS; RHYOLITE; RIFT ZONE; SOURCE ROCK; TEPHRA; URANIUM SERIES DATING; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANISM;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ICELAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; TORFAJOKULL;

EID: 43249110024     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.02.026     Document Type: Article

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