Bimodal tholeiitic and mildly alkalic basalts from Bhir area, central Deccan Volcanic Province, India: Geochemistry and petrogenesis

Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Volumn 189, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 278-290

  Talusani, Reddy V R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

alkalic basalts; Bhir; Deccan Volcanic Province; India; tholeiitic basalts

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; CHEMICAL VARIATIONS; CLINOPYROXENES; COMPOSITIONAL RANGE; CRUSTAL CONTAMINATION; CRYSTAL FRACTIONATION; DECCAN VOLCANIC PROVINCE; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; GEOCHEMICAL VARIATIONS; INHOMOGENEITIES; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; MAGMA MIXING; MAJOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS; MANTLE SOURCE; PARTIAL MELTING; PETROGENESIS; PLAGIOCLASE PHENOCRYSTS; SOURCE MATERIAL; THOLEIITIC BASALTS; TI OXIDES; TIO;

BARIUM; CHROMIUM; CRYSTALLIZATION; FELDSPAR; GEOCHEMISTRY; OLIVINE; PARAFFIN WAXES; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; RUBIDIUM; SILICATE MINERALS; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SODIUM; STRATIGRAPHY; TRACE ELEMENTS; VOLCANOES; ZIRCONIUM;

BASALT;

ALKALI BASALT; ASTHENOSPHERE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CRUSTAL CONTAMINATION; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; MAGMA CHEMISTRY; MANTLE SOURCE; MIXING; OCEAN ISLAND BASALT; PARTIAL MELTING; PETROGENESIS; PHENOCRYST; PLAGIOCLASE; THOLEIITIC BASALT; ZONING;

DECCAN; INDIA;

EID: 73649111334     PISSN: 03770273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2009.11.019     Document Type: Article

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