Rare gas systematics on Lucky Strike basalts (37°N, North Atlantic): Evidence for efficient homogenization in a long-lived magma chamber system?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Moreira, Manuel ^a   Escartin, Javier ^a   Gayer, Eric ^a   Hamelin, Cédric ^a   Bezos, Antoine ^b   Guillon, Fabien ^a   Cannat, Mathilde ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELIUM; INERT GASES; ISOTOPES; KRYPTON; XENON;

HOT SPOT; ISOTOPIC RATIOS; MAGMA CHAMBER; MID ATLANTIC RIDGE; NEON ISOTOPES; NORTH ATLANTIC; PLUME SOURCE; RARE GAS;

NEON;

HELIUM ISOTOPE; HOMOGENEITY; HOT SPOT; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MAGMA CHAMBER; MANTLE PLUME; MELTING; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; NEON; SAMPLING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; LUCKY STRIKE FIELD;

EID: 79955445352     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL046794     Document Type: Article

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