Time scales of melt extraction revealed by distribution of lava composition across a ridge axis

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Cordier, Carole ^a,b   Benoit, Mathieu ^a,c   Hémond, Christophe ^a   Dyment, Jérôme ^d   Gall, Bernard Le ^a   Briais, Anne ^c   Kitazawa, Mitsuko ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ EUROPÉENNE DE BRETAGNE   (France)

^b Museo Nazionale dell'Antartide ^*  (Italy)

^c OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

^d INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^e SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

Author keywords

Basaltic lavas; Mantle processes; Spreading ridge

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION PROCESS; BASALTIC LAVA; CHARACTERISTIC TIME; GEOCHEMICAL VARIATIONS; HETEROGENEOUS MANTLE; INCOMPATIBLE ELEMENT; LONG-PROFILE; MAGMATIC PROCESS; MANTLE HETEROGENEITY; MANTLE PROCESSES; MELT EXTRACTION; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; PERIODIC PROCESS; SEA FLOOR; SPREADING RIDGE; TEMPORAL FLUCTUATION; TEMPORAL RELATION; TIME-SCALES;

BASALT;

BASALT; HETEROGENEITY; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; LAVA; MANTLE PROCESS; MELT; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; PERIODICITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPREADING CENTER; TIMESCALE;

INDIAN OCEAN; MID-INDIAN RIDGE;

EID: 80052207968     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GC003074     Document Type: Article

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