Textural characterization, major and volatile element quantification and Ar-Ar systematics of spherulites in the Rocche Rosse obsidian flow, Lipari, Aeolian Islands: A temperature continuum growth model

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 165, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 373-395

  Clay, P L ^a,c   O'Driscoll, B ^b   Gertisser, R ^b   Busemann, H ^a,c   Sherlock, S C ^a   Kelley, S P ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ar Ar geochronology; CSD; Lipari; NanoSIMS; Spherulites; Volatile elements; Volcanic glass

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GROWTH MODELING; OBSIDIAN; PETROGRAPHY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPHERULITE; TEXTURE; VOLATILE ELEMENT;

ITALY; LIPARI ISLANDS; MESSINA [SICILY]; SICILY;

EID: 84872790041     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-012-0813-x     Document Type: Article

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