Timescales of magmatic processes and eruption ages of the Nyiragongo volcanics from 238U-230Th-226Ra-210Pb disequilibria

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 288, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 149-157

  Chakrabarti, Ramananda ^a   Sims, Kenneth W W ^b,c   Basu, Asish R ^a   Reagan, Mark ^d   Durieux, Jacques ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

238U 230Th 226Ra 210Pb series disequilibria; carbonate metasomatism; magma transport and residence time; silica undersaturated volcanism; volcanic hazard assessment

Indexed keywords

238U-230TH-226RA-210PB SERIES DISEQUILIBRIA; CARBONATITES; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; DIFFERENT PROCESS; EAST AFRICAN RIFT; EMISSION RATES; FLANK ERUPTIONS; LAVA FLOWS; LOW DEGREE; LOW VISCOSITY; MAGMA TRANSPORT; MAGMA TRANSPORT AND RESIDENCE TIME; MAGMATIC PROCESS; MANTLE SOURCE; OCEAN-ISLAND BASALTS; PARTIAL MELTING; RESIDENCE TIME; SILICATE MAGMA; TIME-SCALES; VOLCANIC HAZARD ASSESSMENT; VOLCANIC HAZARDS; VOLCANICS;

GARNETS; GAS EMISSIONS; GAS HAZARDS; LEAD; LEAKAGE (FLUID); MICA; MINERALOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; VOLCANOES;

CARBONATION;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DATING METHOD; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LAVA FLOW; LEAD ISOTOPE; MAGMATISM; MANTLE SOURCE; METASOMATISM; OCEAN ISLAND BASALT; PARTIAL MELTING; PHLOGOPITE; THORIUM ISOTOPE; URANIUM ISOTOPE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANISM;

AFRICA; CENTRAL AFRICA; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; EAST AFRICAN RIFT; NYIRAGONGO; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 70350763738     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.09.017     Document Type: Article

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