Volcanic arcs fed by rapid pulsed fluid flow through subducting slabs

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 489-492

  John, Timm ^a   Gussone, Nikolaus ^a   Podladchikov, Yuri Y ^b   Bebout, Gray E ^c   Dohmen, Ralf ^d   Halama, Ralf ^e   Klemd, Reiner ^f   Magna, Tomas ^a,g   Seitz, Hans Michael ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^g CZECH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Czech Republic)

^h GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; FLUID FLOW; ISLAND ARC; LITHIUM; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE SOURCE; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; SEAWATER; SEISMICITY; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; SUBDUCTION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TIMESCALE; WALL ROCK;

CHINA; TIEN SHAN;

EID: 84863299788     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1482     Document Type: Article

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