Elucidating the processes affecting highly primitive lavas of the Borgarhraun flow (northern Iceland) using trace elements in olivine

• Main Authors: Tollan, Peter, Gurenko, Andrey, Hermann, Jörg
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2020
• Subjects: Olivine; Trace element; Primitive; Basalt; Differentiation; Iceland; Borgarhraun
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/431955; https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000431955

Olivine is typically the first phase to crystallise from basaltic melts and its chemistry can therefore inform on the earliest stages of magmatic evolution, not recorded by later crystallising phases. Despite the potential of olivine for understanding primitive differentiation, limited analytical ca...