Understanding Melt Generation Beneath the Slow-Spreading Kolbeinsey Ridge Using (238)U, (230)Th, and (231)Pa Excesses

• Published in: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
• Main Authors: Elkins, L. J., Sims, Ken, Prytulak, J., Elliott, T., Mattielli, N., Blichert-Toft, J., Blusztajn, J., Dunbar, N., Devey, C., Mertz, D. F., Schilling, J. G., Murrell, M.
• Format: Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: University of Wyoming. Libraries 2011
• Subjects: Geology; Jan Mayen; Kolbeinsey; Kolbeinsey Ridge
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11919/1146; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2011.08.020

©2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. To examine the petrogenesis and sources of basalts from the Kolbeinsey Ridge, one of the shallowest locations along the global ridge system, we present new measurements of Nd, Sr, Hf, and Pb isotopes and U-series disequilibria on 32 axial basalts. Young Kolbe...