Osmium isotopes and Fe/Mn ratios in Ti-rich picritic basalts from the Ethiopian flood basalt province: No evidence for core contribution to the Afar plume

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 296, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 413-422

  Rogers, Nick W ^a   Davies, Marc K ^a   Parkinson, Ian J ^a   Yirgu, Gezahegn ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Afar plume; Iron manganese ratios; Osmium isotopes; Picrites

Indexed keywords

AFAR PLUME; ANKARAMITES; COMPOSITIONAL FEATURES; CORE MATERIAL; CRUSTAL MATERIALS; FE/MN RATIO; FLOOD BASALT; HIGH PRESSURE; ICELANDICS; INCOMPATIBLE ELEMENT; LOW PRESSURES; MAGMA SOURCES; MAJOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS; MANTLE PLUME; MATRIX; MELT COMPOSITIONS; MGO CONTENT; OCEAN ISLAND BASALTS; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; OSMIUM ISOTOPES; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; SOURCE REGION;

COREMAKING; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; ISOTOPES; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; OCEANOGRAPHY; OSMIUM; RECYCLING; SILICATE MINERALS; THERMAL PLUMES; TRACE ELEMENTS;

BASALT;

FLOOD BASALT; IRON; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MANGANESE; MANTLE PLUME; OSMIUM ISOTOPE; PICRITE; TRACE ELEMENT;

AFAR;

EID: 77954661083     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.05.027     Document Type: Article

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