Intermediate composition magma production in an intracontinental setting: Unusual andesites and dacites of the mid-Miocene Santa Rosa-Calico volcanic field, Northern Nevada

Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Volumn 188, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 197-213

  Brueseke, Matthew E ^a   Hart, William K ^b  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

andesite; assimilation; Columbia River Basalt Group; crustal anatexis; fractional crystallization; intermediate composition; magma mixing; McDermitt; Miocene; open system; Oregon Plateau; Santa Rosa Calico volcanic field; Steens Basalt; Yellowstone hotspot

Indexed keywords

COLUMBIA RIVER BASALTS; CRUSTAL ANATEXIS; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; HOT SPOT; INTERMEDIATE COMPOSITION; MAGMA MIXING; MIOCENE; VOLCANIC FIELD; YELLOWSTONES;

COTTON FABRICS; CRYSTALLIZATION; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; GRANITE; ISOTOPES; OPEN SYSTEMS; PARAFFIN WAXES; RIVERS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SILICATE MINERALS; VOLCANOES;

BASALT;

ANDESITE; CALC ALKALINE ROCK; DACITE; FLOOD BASALT; FORMATION MECHANISM; GRANITOID; HETEROGENEITY; HOT SPOT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAVA FLOW; MAGMA ASSIMILATION; MIOCENE; TECTONIC SETTING; THOLEIITE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANOLOGY; XENOLITH;

NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

LOESELIASTRUM;

EID: 71849114931     PISSN: 03770273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2008.12.015     Document Type: Article

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