Geochemistry of compositionally distinct Late Cretaceous Back-Arc basin lavas: Implications for the tectonomagmatic evolution of the Caribbean plate

Journal of Geology

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 655-676

  Hastie, Alan R ^a   Ramsook, Ryan ^a   Mitchell, Simon F ^a   Kerr, Andrew C ^b   Millar, Ian L ^c   Mark, Darren F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKARC BASIN; CARIBBEAN PLATE; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRETACEOUS; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; HAFNIUM; LAVA; MAGMA; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; MANTLE PLUME; MANTLE SOURCE; PARTIAL MELTING; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THOLEIITE; TRACE ELEMENT;

BLUE MOUNTAINS [JAMAICA]; JAMAICA;

EID: 78649445768     PISSN: 00221376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/656353     Document Type: Article

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