Geochemistry of mid-Cretaceous Pacific crust being subducted along the Tonga-Kermadec Trench: Implications for the generation of arc lavas

Lithos

Volumn 112, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 87-102

  Castillo, P R ^a   Lonsdale, P F ^a   Moran, C L ^a   Hawkins, J W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arc lavas; Backarc basin; Kermadec arc; Subduction component; Subduction factory; Tonga arc

Indexed keywords

BACKARC BASIN; CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; GEOCHEMISTRY; LAVA; LEAD ISOTOPE; MANTLE SOURCE; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PACIFIC PLATE; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; THOLEIITIC BASALT; TRACE ELEMENT;

KERMADEC TRENCH; PACIFIC OCEAN; TONGA TRENCH;

EID: 68549090601     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2009.03.041     Document Type: Article

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