Open-system evolution of a single episode of Snake River Plain magmatism

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 353, Issue , 2002, Pages 193-204

  Geist, Dennis J ^a   Sims, Elisa N ^a   Hughes, Scott S ^b   McCurry, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; FELDSPAR; LABORATORIES; PHOSPHORUS; RIVERS; SILICA;

COMPOSITIONAL CHARACTERISTICS; COMPOSITIONAL VARIATION; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; IDAHO NATIONAL ENGINEERING AND ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORIES; INCOMPATIBLE ELEMENT; OCEAN ISLAND BASALTS; SNAKE RIVER PLAINS; TRACE ELEMENT CONCENTRATIONS;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

BASALT; BEDROCK; COOLING; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; MAGMATISM; OLIVINE; PHOSPHORUS; PLUME; SUBDUCTION; TRACE ELEMENT; VANADIUM;

IDAHO; SNAKE RIVER PLAIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870910699     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2353-1.193     Document Type: Article

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