Dacitic ocelli in mafic lavas, 3.8-3.7 Ga Isua greenstone belt, West Greenland: Geochemical evidence for partial melting of oceanic crust and magma mixing

Chemical Geology

Volumn 258, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 105-124

  Appel, Peter W U ^a   Polat, Ali ^b   Frei, Robert ^c,d  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Dacite; Eoarchean; Hydrous melting; Isua; Magma mixing; Ocelli; Pillow basalt; Plagiogranite

Indexed keywords

BASALT; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DACITE; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; GREENSTONE BELT; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; IMMISCIBILITY; MAFIC ROCK; MAGMA CHAMBER; MAGMA CHEMISTRY; MIXING; OCEANIC CRUST; OPHIOLITE; PARTIAL MELTING; PHANEROZOIC; PILLOW LAVA; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; ISUA GREENSTONE BELT;

EID: 58149471773     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2008.09.011     Document Type: Article

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