Magmatic evidence for African mantle propagation into the southern Tyrrhenian backarc region

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 478, Issue , 2011, Pages 307-331

  Trua, Teresa ^a   Marani, Michael P ^b   Gamberi, Fabiano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b ISMAR CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; ISOTOPES; LEAD ALLOYS; NEODYMIUM ALLOYS; PARALLEL FLOW; STRONTIUM ALLOYS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TERNARY ALLOYS; VOLCANOES;

BACK-ARC BASIN; ISOTOPE COMPOSITIONS; MAJOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS; MID OCEAN RIDGE BASALTS; OCEAN ISLAND BASALTS; SOUTHERN TYRRHENIAN; SR-ND-PB ISOTOPES; SUBDUCTION PROCESS;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

BACKARC BASIN; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAVA; LEAD ISOTOPE; MAGMA; MAGMATISM; MANTLE; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; OCEAN ISLAND BASALT; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; TRACE ELEMENT;

AFRICA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; TYRRHENIAN SEA;

EID: 80051869197     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2011.2478(16)     Document Type: Article

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