Temperature, pressure, and composition of the mantle source region of late cenozoic basalts in Hainan Island, SE Asia: A consequence of a young thermal mantle plume close to subduction zones?

Journal of Petrology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 177-233

  Wang, Xuan Ce ^a,b,c   Li, Zheng Xiang ^a   Li, Xian Hua ^b   Li, Jie ^d   Liu, Ying ^d   Long, Wen Guo ^e   Zhou, Jin Bo ^e   Wang, Fei ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^e Hainan Institute of Geological Survey   (China)

Author keywords

Basalts; Cenozoic; Geochemistry; Hainan Island; Plume; South China Sea

Indexed keywords

BASALT; CENOZOIC; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; HOLOCENE; MAGMA CHEMISTRY; MANTLE PLUME; MANTLE SOURCE; MIOCENE; OCEAN ISLAND BASALT; P-T CONDITIONS; PARENT BODY; PHENOCRYST; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

CHINA; HAINAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 84555195442     PISSN: 00223530     EISSN: 14602415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/petrology/egr061     Document Type: Article

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