Isotopic-heterogeneity of the Thjorsa lava-Implications for mantle sources and crustal processes within the Eastern Rift Zone, Iceland

Chemical Geology

Volumn 255, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 305-316

  Halldorsson, Saemundur Ari ^a   Oskarsson, Niels ^a   Gronvold, Karl ^a   Sigurdsson, Gylfi ^a   Sverrisdottir, Gudrun ^a   Steinthorsson, Sigurdur ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Crustal processes; Isotopes; Magma; Plagioclase; Xenocrysts

Indexed keywords

FISSURE; HETEROGENEITY; HOLOCENE; HOST ROCK; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LAVA FLOW; MANTLE SOURCE; PLAGIOCLASE; PORPHYRY; RIFT ZONE; TRACE ELEMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ICELAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 52249106660     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2008.06.050     Document Type: Article

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