Geochemistry and age of the Nouméa Basin lavas, New Caledonia: Evidence for Cretaceous subduction beneath the eastern Gondwana margin

Lithos

Volumn 125, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 659-674

  Nicholson, K N ^a   Maurizot, P ^b   Black, P M ^c   Picard, C ^d   Simonetti, A ^e   Stewart, A ^a   Alexander, A ^a  

^a BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRGM   (New Caledonia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^e University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

Gondwana; Late Cretaceous; New Caledonia; New Zealand; Tectonics; Volcanism

Indexed keywords

BASIN; CHONDRITE; CONTINENTAL ARC; CRETACEOUS; GONDWANA; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; ISLAND ARC; LAVA; MAFIC ROCK; MARINE SEDIMENT; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; PLATE BOUNDARY; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC SETTING; TRACE ELEMENT; VOLCANIC ROCK; VOLCANISM;

ANTARCTICA; NEW CALEDONIA [MELANESIA]; NEW CALEDONIA [NEW CALEDONIA (DPN)]; NEW ZEALAND; NOUMEA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 79958779580     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2011.03.018     Document Type: Article

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