Lateral chemical heterogeneity in the Palaeocene upper mantle beneath the Scottish Hebrides
The early major products of Tertiary volcanicity in both Skye and Mull are transitional basic lavas, similar in their major-element chemistry to world-wide alkali basalt series. In contrast, their contents of incompatible trace elements bear more resemblance to those of olivine tholeiites. The Mull...
| Published in: | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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The Royal Society
1980
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.1980.0212 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsta.1980.0212 |