In-situ chemical, U-Pb dating, and Hf isotope investigation of megacrystic zircons, Malaita (Solomon Islands): Evidence for multi-stage alkaline magmatic activity beneath the Ontong Java Plateau

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 295, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 251-261

  Simonetti, Antonio ^a   Neal, Clive R ^a  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

Aln ite; Malaita; Megacryst; Ontong Java Plateau; U Pb dating; Zircon

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; AGE SPECTRUM; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; CHEMICAL DATA; CHEMICAL IMAGING; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; HF ISOTOPE; IN-SITU; LA-ICP-MS; MAGMATIC ACTIVITY; MAGMATISMS; MANTLE XENOLITHS; MULTI-STAGE; REE CONTENT; REE PATTERN; TRACE ELEMENT COMPOSITION; U-PB DATING; UPPER MANTLE; WEIGHTED MEAN;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; HAFNIUM; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; ISOTOPES; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MICA; MINERALOGY; OXIDE MINERALS; SILICATE MINERALS; TRACE ELEMENTS; ZIRCON;

LEAD;

ALKALINE ROCK; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; EMPLACEMENT; HAFNIUM; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; KIMBERLITE; MAGMATISM; MEGACRYST; METASOMATISM; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; TRACE ELEMENT; UPPER MANTLE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; XENOLITH; ZIRCON;

MALAITA; ONTONG JAVA PLATEAU; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOLOMON ISLANDS [(ISG) MELANESIA]; SOLOMON ISLANDS [SOLOMON ISLANDS (ISG)];

EID: 77953024643     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.04.004     Document Type: Article

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