Zircon from historic eruptions in Iceland: Reconstructing storage and evolution of silicic magmas

Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 102, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 135-161

  Carley, Tamara L ^a   Miller, Calvin F ^a   Wooden, Joseph L ^b   Bindeman, Ilya N ^c   Barth, Andrew P ^d  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; MAGMA; RECONSTRUCTION; URANIUM SERIES DATING; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; ZIRCON; ZONING;

ASKJA; HEKLA; ICELAND; ORAEFAJOKULL; TORFAJOKULL;

EID: 80355133290     PISSN: 09300708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00710-011-0169-3     Document Type: Article

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