Enriched basalts at segment centers: The Lucky Strike (37°17'N) and Menez Gwen (37°50'N) segments of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Gale, Allison ^a   Escrig, Stephane ^a   Gier, Elizabeth J ^b   Langmuir, Charles H ^a   Goldstein, Steven L ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Lucky Strike; mid ocean ridge basalt; partial melting; trace element geochemistry

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPES; MELTING;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; INCOMPATIBLE ELEMENT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LUCKY STRIKE; MELT EXTRACTION; MID ATLANTIC RIDGE; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; MID-OCEANIC-RIDGE BASALTS; MULTIPLE SUPPLIES; PARTIAL MELTING; STEP FUNCTIONS; TRACE ELEMENT GEOCHEMISTRY; TWO-COMPONENT; VERTICAL TRANSPORTS;

BASALT;

BASALT; CHEMICAL ALTERATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMPLEXITY; ENRICHMENT; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; MIXING RATIO; PARTIAL MELTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; LUCKY STRIKE FIELD; MENEZ GWEN HYDROTHERMAL FIELD; MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE;

EID: 79959752251     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GC003446     Document Type: Article

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