Time-evolution of magma sources in a continental back-arc setting: The Cenozoic basalts from Sierra de San Bernardo (Patagonia, Chubut, Argentina)

Geological Magazine

Volumn 145, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 714-732

  Bruni, Sandro ^a,b   D'Orazio, Massimo ^a,b   Haller, Miguel J ^c   Innocenti, Fabrizio ^a,b   Manetti, Piero ^b,d   Pécskay, Zoltán ^e   Tonarini, Sonia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PATAGONIA SAN JUAN BOSCO   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^e INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Basaltic rocks; Cenozoic; Geodynamics; Isotope geochemistry; Patagonia; Petrogenesis

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; BASALT; EXPLORATORY GEOCHEMISTRY; GEODYNAMICS; ISOTOPES; LEAD ALLOYS; NEODYMIUM ALLOYS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; STRONTIUM ALLOYS; TERNARY ALLOYS; VOLCANOES;

BASALTIC ROCKS; CENOZOIC; ISOTOPE GEOCHEMISTRY; PATAGONIA; PETROGENESIS;

POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS;

BACKARC BASIN; BASANITE; EOCENE; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MAFIC ROCK; MAGMA CHEMISTRY; MANTLE SOURCE; PLEISTOCENE; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR;

ARGENTINA; CHUBUT; PATAGONIA; SIERRA DE SAN BERNARDO; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 53249119726     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756808004949     Document Type: Article

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