MORB mantle hosts the missing Eu (Sr, Nb, Ta and Ti) in the continental crust: New perspectives on crustal growth, crust-mantle differentiation and chemical structure of oceanic upper mantle

Lithos

Volumn 112, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 1-17

  Niu, Yaoling ^a   O'Hara, Michael J ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amphibolite; Continental crust growth; Crust mantle differentiation; Eu, Sr, Nb, Ta and Ti anomalies; Low velocity zone dynamics; Oceanic upper mantle compositional structure; Plagioclase; Primitive MORB

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLITE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CORRELATION; CRUSTAL CONTAMINATION; FRACTIONATION; HOST ROCK; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; MANTLE SOURCE; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; OCEANIC CRUST; PARTIAL MELTING; PLAGIOCLASE; SEAMOUNT; TRACE ELEMENT; UPPER MANTLE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EAST PACIFIC RISE; MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC-ANTARCTIC RIDGE;

EID: 68549096380     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2008.12.009     Document Type: Article

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