Mantle dynamics and mantle melting beneath Niuafo'ou Island and the northern Lau back-arc basin

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 156, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 103-118

  Regelous, Marcel ^a   Turner, Simon ^b   Falloon, Trevor J ^c   Taylor, Paul ^d   Gamble, John ^e   Green, Trevor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^d Australian Volcanological Investigations   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Back arc basin basalts; Lau Basin; Niuafo'ou; Radiogenic isotopes; Samoa Islands; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

BACKARC BASIN; BASALT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAVA; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; PARTIAL MELTING; TRACE ELEMENT;

AMERICAN SAMOA; LAU BASIN; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; POLYNESIA;

EID: 44449176651     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-007-0276-7     Document Type: Article

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