Mantle source provinces beneath the Northwestern USA delimited by helium isotopes in young basalts

Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Volumn 188, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 128-140

  Graham, D W ^a   Reid, M R ^b   Jordan, B T ^a   Grunder, A L ^a   Leeman, W P ^c   Lupton, J E ^d  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c National Science Foundation   (United States)

^d NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

helium isotopes; High Lava Plains; mantle plume; Snake River Plain; Yellowstone

Indexed keywords

BASALTIC MAGMA; CASCADES ARC; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CRUSTAL CONTAMINATION; CRYSTAL FRACTIONATION; HE ISOTOPES; HELIUM ISOTOPES; HOT SPOT; LATERAL GRADIENT; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; MANTLE PLUME; MANTLE SOURCE; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; MIOCENE; MULTICOMPONENTS; NORTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; OCEANIC ISLANDS; OLIVINE PHENOCRYST; SNAKE RIVER PLAINS; VOLCANIC ARC; YELLOWSTONES;

BASALT; CAVITY RESONATORS; ISOTOPES; NEODYMIUM; OCEANOGRAPHY; OLIVINE; RADIOACTIVITY; RIVERS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SILICATE MINERALS; STRONTIUM; THERMAL PLUMES; VOLCANOES;

HELIUM;

ASTHENOSPHERE; BASALT; CRUSTAL CONTAMINATION; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; HELIUM ISOTOPE; HOT SPOT; IGNEOUS PROVINCE; ISLAND ARC; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MANTLE PLUME; MANTLE SOURCE; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; OLIVINE; PHENOCRYST; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE;

CASCADE RANGE; NORTH AMERICA; OWYHEE MOUNTAINS; SNAKE BASIN; UNITED STATES; WYOMING; YELLOWSTONE CALDERA;

EID: 60949099597     PISSN: 03770273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2008.12.004     Document Type: Article

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