Enriching mantle melts within a dying mid-ocean spreading ridge: Insights from Hf-isotope and trace element patterns in detrital oceanic zircon

Lithos

Volumn 126, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 355-368

  Portner, Ryan A ^a   Daczko, Nathan R ^a   Murphy, Melissa J ^a   Pearson, Norman J ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Detrital; Hf isotope; Mid ocean ridge; Oceanic; Ophiolite; Zircon

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GEOCHEMISTRY; HAFNIUM; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; OLIGOCENE; OPHIOLITE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PROVENANCE; TRACE ELEMENT; ZIRCON;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 80054049045     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2011.07.017     Document Type: Article

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