A deep mantle source for high 3He/4He ocean island basalts (OIB) inferred from Pacific near-ridge seamount lavas

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 20, 2009, Pages

  Hahm, D ^a,b   Castillo, P R ^a   Hilton, D R ^a  

^a GEOSCIENCES RESEARCH DIVISION   (United States)

^b Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EAST PACIFIC RISE; HOT SPOT; ISOTOPIC SIGNALS; MANTLE SOURCE; OCEAN ISLAND BASALTS; RADIOGENIC ISOTOPES; SEAMOUNT CHAINS; UPPER MANTLE; VOLCANIC ISLANDS;

ISOTOPES; LITHOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOISOTOPES; VOLCANOES;

HELIUM;

BASALT; HELIUM ISOTOPE; HOT SPOT; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAVA; LITHOLOGY; MANTLE SOURCE; SEAMOUNT; UPPER MANTLE; VOLCANIC ISLAND;

EAST PACIFIC RISE; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 72149106466     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL040560     Document Type: Article

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