Timescales of magma differentiation from basalt to andesite beneath Hekla Volcano, Iceland: Constraints from U-series disequilibria in lavas from the last quarter-millennium flows

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 256-283

  Chekol, Takele A ^a   Kobayashi, Katsura ^a   Yokoyama, Tetsuya ^a,b   Sakaguchi, Chie ^a   Nakamura, Eizo ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDESITE; APATITE; BASALT; DACITE; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MAGMATIC DIFFERENTIATION; PARTIAL MELTING; TRACE ELEMENT; VOLCANIC ROCK;

HEKLA; ICELAND;

EID: 78649633875     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2010.10.001     Document Type: Article

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