Pressures of Crystallization of Icelandic Magmas
Iceland lies astride the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and was created by sea-floor spreading that began about 55Ma.The crust is anomalously thick (20^40 km), indicating higher melt productivity in the underlying mantle compared with normal ridge segments as a result of the presence of a mantle plume or upwell...
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.495.29 http://petrology.oxfordjournals.org/content/49/3/465.full.pdf |