Assimilation of the plutonic roots of the Andean arc controls variations in U-series disequilibria at Volcan Llaima, Chile

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 303, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 37-47

  Reubi, O ^a,b   Bourdon, B ^a,e   Dungan, M A ^b   Koornneef, J M ^a   Selles D ^c,d   Langmuir, C H ^c   Aciego, S ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Sernageomin ^*  (Chile)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Arc magmatism; Assimilation; Basaltic andesite; U series

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY RATIOS; ARC CONTROL; ARC MAGMAS; ARC MAGMATISM; ASSIMILATION; BASALTIC ANDESITE; CHEMICAL EVOLUTION; CHEMICAL FLUX; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; ELEMENT RATIOS; GLOBAL VARIABILITY; HALF LIVES; LINEAR ARRAYS; LINEAR CORRELATION; MANTLE METASOMATISM; MELT PRODUCTION; PB ISOTOPES; PLUTONIC ROCKS; SEDIMENT RECYCLING; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TIME-SCALES; U-SERIES; U-SERIES DISEQUILIBRIA;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; IGNEOUS ROCKS; ISOTOPES; LEAD; MINERALOGY; RECYCLING; STRONTIUM; TECTONICS;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

ANDESITE; BASALT; BASEMENT ROCK; LAVA; MAFIC ROCK; MAGMA; MAGMATISM; METASOMATISM; PLUTON; TRACE ELEMENT; URANIUM SERIES DATING; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ARAUCANIA; CHILE; LLAIMA; SOUTHERN VOLCANIC ZONE;

EID: 79951813914     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.12.018     Document Type: Article

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