Rapid timescales of differentiation and evidence for crustal contamination at intra-oceanic arcs: Geochemical and U-Th-Ra-Sr-Nd isotopic constraints from Lopevi Volcano, Vanuatu, SW Pacific

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 273, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 184-194

  Handley, Heather K ^a   Turner, Simon P ^a   Smith, Ian E M ^b   Stewart, Robert B ^c   Cronin, Shane J ^c  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

assimilation fractional crystallisation; geochemistry; intra oceanic arc; Uranium series isotopes; Vanuatu

Indexed keywords

ASSIMILATION FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLISATION; CRUSTAL CONTAMINATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; INTRA-OCEANIC ARC; MAGMA GENERATION; MAGMATIC EVOLUTION; NEGATIVE CORRELATIONS; OCEANIC SUBDUCTION; TIME-SCALES; URANIUM SERIES ISOTOPES; VANUATU;

CONTAMINATION; ISOTOPES; MINERALS; NEODYMIUM; TECTONICS; VOLCANOES;

LANDFORMS;

CRUSTAL CONTAMINATION; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; PARTIAL MELTING; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TIMESCALE; TRACE ELEMENT; URANIUM ISOTOPE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

LOPEVI; MELANESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST); VANUATU;

EID: 49149118124     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.06.032     Document Type: Article

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