Evolution of crust and mantle beneath the Bering Sea region: Evidence from xenoliths and late Cenozoic basalts

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 360, Issue , 2002, Pages 167-193

  Wirth, Karl R ^a   Grandy, Jeffrey ^a,b   Kelley, Katherine ^a,c   Sadofsky, Seth ^a,d  

^a MACALESTER COLLEGE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALI BASALT; CENOZOIC; CRUST; MANTLE; PERIDOTITE; THOLEIITIC BASALT; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; XENOLITH;

BERING SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84870940332     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2360-4.167     Document Type: Review

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