Ancient lithospheric source for Quaternary lavas in Hispaniola

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 554-557

  Kamenov, George D ^a   Perfit, Michael R ^a   Lewis, John F ^b   Goss, Adam R ^a,e   Arévalo Jr , Ricardo ^c,f   Shuster, Robert D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Maryland   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^e EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^f NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; GONDWANA; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LAVA; MANTLE STRUCTURE; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; QUATERNARY; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TERRACE; TERRANE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA; CENTRAL AMERICA; HISPANIOLA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 79961089718     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1203     Document Type: Article

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