Don DePaolo, Mike Murrell, Steve Goldstein, Peter Kelemen, Mathew ... MORB Petrogenesis. EPR Ridge Crest Construction. Pillow Front 3 (Sample 7) Conclusions ...
Earthquakes extend to 600 km beneath Lau Basin. Note that tomographic image slab appears to terminate at 660 km ... Island Arc Petrogenesis. Figure 16-11b. ...
... 2 (Winter) Phase diagram of aluminous lherzolite with melting interval (gray) ... Isotopes do not fractionate during partial melting of fractional melting ...
Lithology and thickness of a typical ophiolite sequence, based on the Samial Ophiolite in Oman. After Boudier and Nicolas (1985) Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 76, 84-92.
Title: Interactions between slab melts and mantle wedge in Archaean subductions: old and new views on TTG Author: gob Last modified by: Samba Created Date
either large tholeitic basaltic provinces (CFB = Continental Flood Basalts) ... CO2 (modified by Freestone and Hamilton, 1980, to incorporate K2O, MgO, FeO, and ...
Arc Magmatism Reading: Winter, Chapter 16 Island Arc Magmatism Activity along arcuate volcanic island chains along subduction zones Distinctly different from the ...
Basalts originate from the mantle but our knowledge of the interior of the Earth ... Is there any petrologic or tectonic reason why they should or should not be? ...
Chapter 19: Continental Alkaline Magmatism Alkaline rocks occur in all tectonic environments, including the ocean basins Conversely, Chapters 12, 15, 17, and 18 have ...
either large tholeitic basaltic provinces (CFB = Continental Flood Basalts) ... Snake River-Yellowstone hot spot by Geist and Richards (1993) Geology, 21, 789-792. ...
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either large tholeitic basaltic provinces (CFB = Continental Flood Basalts) ... After Schairer and Bowen (1935) Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union, 16th Ann. ...
Chapter 8: Major Elements Wet-chems : gravimetric/volumetric * AFM diagram showing typical areas for various extents of evolution from primitive magma ...
... MORB SPREADING RATES OCEANIC CRUST AND UPPER MANTLE STRUCTURE EVIDENCE Seismic Velocities Deep Sea Drilling Program Ophiolites Dredging of Fracture Zone ...
Depth of melting from REE patterns. Tectonic Setting from distinctive trace element ... relatively shallow melting within the spinel stability field ( 70 depth) ...
Dike-like mush zone and a smaller transition zone beneath well-developed rift valley ... Mush. Gabbro. Rift Valley ... more primitive), with some mixing of mush ...
Chapter 13: Mid-Ocean Rifts The Mid-Ocean Ridge System Figure 13-1. After Minster et al. (1974) Geophys. J. Roy. Astr. Soc., 36, 541-576. Ridge Segments and Spreading ...
Isotopes Reading: Winter, Chapter 9, pp. 167-180 Isotopes Reading: Winter, Chapter 9, pp. 167-180 O and H isotopes used to evaluate juvenile vs. meteoric vs. brine ...
Archaean magmatism NB- Archean (US spelling) or Archaean (UK spelling) Why? Somehow different from modern magmas Interesting to test our understanding of petrogenetic ...
If the plume is zoned, different isotopic components ... La/Yb (REE slope) correlates with the degree of silica undersaturation in OIBs ... Isotope Geochemistry ...
... Ophiolite Obduction Oceanic Crust and Upper Mantle Structure Typical Ophiolite Layer 1 A thin layer of pelagic sediment Pillow lavas in the Semail ...
9) Solid Earth. The student knows Earth s interior is differentiated chemically, physically, and thermally. The student is expected to: c. Explain how scientists ...
Hawkesworth C.J., O'Nions R.K., Pankhurst R.J., Hamilton P.J., Evensen N.M. (1977) A geochemical study of island-arc and back-arc tholeiites from the Scotia sea.
Chapter 28: Metamorphism of Pelitic Sediments Mudstones and shales: very fine grained mature clastic sediments derived from continental crust Characteristically ...
Subduction is responsible for much plutonism, volcanism, metamorphism and orogenesis ... Dominantly subalkaline. Both tholeiitic and calc-alkaline, but overall ...
Any process by which a magma is able to diversify and produce a magma or rock of ... diagram illustrating the cotectic and peritectic curves in the system forsterite ...
... Introduction to Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. Prentice Hall. ... Table 9-6 A brief summary of some particularly useful trace elements in igneous petrology ...
Rather the XNi within each phase will vary in proportion to the system concentration ... Variation in the relative concentration of a trace element in a liquid vs. ...
1. Investigation of Reykjanes Ridge Evolution near Iceland, NS, $330,444 ... c) Origin of the V-shaped ridges along the Reykjanes Ridge south of Iceland (see Fig. ...
In addition to high MgO and low SiO2, ... 5.8% Al2O3, 4.5% CaO, 1 ... J., and Niu, Y., 1998, Geochemical evolution within the Tonga-Kermadec-Lau Arc-Backarc system: ...
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