Pb isotopes during crustal melting and magma mingling - A cautionary tale from the Miki Fjord macrodike, central east Greenland

Lithos

Volumn 118, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 191-201

  Waight, Tod E ^a,b   Lesher, Charles E ^c  

^a DANISH LITHOSPHERE CENTRE   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crustal contamination; Diffusion; Disequilibrium melting; East Greenland; Magma mingling; Pb isotopes

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL CONTAMINATION; DIKE; EOCENE; FLOOD BASALT; GNEISS; HOST ROCK; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MELTING; PRECAMBRIAN;

ARCTIC; EAST GREENLAND; GREENLAND;

EID: 77953961543     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2010.04.012     Document Type: Article

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