Tectonic discrimination of basic and ultrabasic volcanic rocks through log-transformed ratios of immobile trace elements

International Geology Review

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1057-1079

  Agrawal, Salil ^a   Guevara, Mirna ^b   Verma, Surendra P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RAJASTHAN   (India)

^b INSTITUTO DE ENERGÍAS RENOVABLES   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ALTERATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; IMMOBILIZATION; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; ISLAND ARC; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; OCEAN ISLAND BASALT; TECTONIC SETTING; TRACE ELEMENT; VOLCANIC ROCK;

EID: 63249087539     PISSN: 00206814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0020-6814.50.12.1057     Document Type: Article

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