Geochemical characteristics of the alkaline basalts and the phonolite -trachyte plugs of the axum area, Northern Ethiopia

Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 153-170

  Hagos, Miruts ^a   Koeberl, Christian ^a   Kabeto, Kurkura ^b   Koller, Friedrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MEKELLE UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Axum; Basanite; Ethiopian flood basalts; Phonolite; Tephrite

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE ROCK; BASALT; BASANITE; FLOOD BASALT; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MAGMA; OLIGOCENE; PETROLOGY; PHONOLITE; TRACHYTE; VOLCANISM;

AKSUM; ETHIOPIA;

TRACHYTES;

EID: 78650490924     PISSN: 20727151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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