Diapirs as the source of the sediment signature in arc lavas

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 641-646

  Behn, Mark D ^a   Kelemen, Peter B ^b   Hirth, Greg ^c   Hacker, Bradley R ^d   Massonne, Hans Joachim ^e  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEHYDRATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; ISLAND ARC; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LAVA; LOW TEMPERATURE; METAMORPHISM; PARTIAL MELTING; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; SLAB; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TRACE ELEMENT;

EID: 80052319036     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1214     Document Type: Article

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