Continental geochemical signatures in dacites from Iceland and implications for models of early Archaean crust formation

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 279, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 44-52

  Willbold, Matthias ^a,b,c   Hegner, Ernst ^c   Stracke, Andreas ^a,d   Rocholl, Alexander ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Archaean; continental crust; Iceland; oceanic plateau; subduction; tonalite trondhjemite granodiorite (TTG)

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAN; CONTINENTAL CRUST; ICELAND; OCEANIC PLATEAU; SUBDUCTION; TONALITE-TRONDHJEMITE-GRANODIORITE (TTG);

FELDSPAR; LEAD; LEAD ALLOYS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; OXIDE MINERALS; SILICATE MINERALS; SODIUM; TECTONICS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

MELTING;

ARCHEAN; BASALT; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; DACITE; ENRICHMENT; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; GRANODIORITE; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MODELING; PARTIAL MELTING; PETROGENESIS; SUBDUCTION; TONALITE; TRONDHJEMITE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ICELAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 60349085856     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.12.029     Document Type: Article

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