Melt Transport from the Mantle to the Crust-Uranium-Series Isotopes

Timescales of Magmatic Processes: From Core to Atmosphere

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 102-115

  Turner, Simon P ^a   Bourdon, Bernard ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ability, to constrain depth of origin of U series isotope signatures; Channel flow melt, efficiently removed to channels from regions of porosity; Evidence from U series isotopes; Mantle melts, moving from source regions into overlying crust; Mantle, not mono mineralic and melting of peridotite reactions at grain boundaries; Melt transport, mantle to crust uranium series isotopes; Porosity ( symbol ), as measure of void spaces in material; Primary driving force for melt extraction, being gravity; U series isotopes, principle source of time scale information; U Th Pa disequilibria in MORB, OIB and IAB minimum constraints on ascent rates of 1 to 20 m yr

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861309174     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444328509.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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