Geochemical characteristics and Sr-Nd-Hf isotope compositions of mantle xenoliths and host basalts from Assab, Eritrea: Implications for the composition and thermal structure of the lithosphere beneath the Afar Depression

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 159, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 731-751

  Teklay, Mengist ^a,b   Scherer, Erik E ^b   Mezger, Klaus ^b   Danyushevsky, Leonid ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ASMARA   (Eritrea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Afar Depression; Cumulates; Rifting; Sr Nd Hf isotopes; Xenoliths

Indexed keywords

BASALT; EMPLACEMENT; GABBRO; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEODYNAMICS; IGNEOUS ROCK; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LITHOSPHERE; MAFIC ROCK; MANTLE; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; RIFTING; SILL; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; THERMAL STRUCTURE; TRACE ELEMENT; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK; XENOLITH;

AFAR; ERITREA;

EID: 77952236570     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-009-0451-0     Document Type: Article

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