www.MantlePlumes.org © MantlePlumes.org Eruptive Temperatures of the Paleogene Picrites of West Greenland and Baffi n Bay

• Main Author: James H. Natland
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Greenland; Padloping Island; Iceland
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.497.4753; http://www.mantleplumes.org/WebpagePDFs/Greenland.pdf

Tholeiitic picrites from West Greenland and Padloping Island on either side of Baffi n Bay have long been considered to be high-temperature eruptives from the ancestral Iceland mantle plume. Olivine-liquid FeO-MgO equilibria have been used to backtrack to calculated parental compositions, giving as...