Iron and lithium isotope systematics of the Hekla volcano, Iceland - Evidence for Fe isotope fractionation during magma differentiation

Chemical Geology

Volumn 258, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 78-91

  Schuessler, Jan A ^a   Schoenberg, Ronny ^a   Sigmarsson, Olgeir ^b,c  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Hekla volcano; High temperature stable isotope fractionation; Iceland; Iron isotopes; Lithium isotopes; Magma differentiation

Indexed keywords

ANDESITE; CRYSTALLIZATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; IRON; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; LITHIUM; MAGMATIC DIFFERENTIATION; SILICATE MELT; STABLE ISOTOPE; TRACE ELEMENT; UPPER MANTLE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; HEKLA; ICELAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 57749086987     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2008.06.021     Document Type: Article

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