Louisville Seamount Chain: Petrogenetic processes and geochemical evolution of the mantle source

Louisville Seamount Chain: Petrogenetic processes and geochemical evolution of the mantle source

Abstract The Louisville Seamount Chain is a ∼4300 km long chain of submarine volcanoes in the southwestern Pacific that spans an age range comparable to that of the Hawaiian‐Emperor chain and is commonly thought to represent a hot spot track. Dredging in 2006 recovered igneous rocks from 33 stations...

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Main Authors: Loÿc Vanderkluysen, John J. Mahoney, Anthony A. P. Koppers, Christoph Beier, Marcel Regelous, Jeffrey S. Gee, Peter F. Lonsdale
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2014-06-01
Series:Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
Subjects:
Louisville
mantle plumes
hot spot
ocean island basalt
seamount
geochemistry
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/2014GC005288
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