Crustal Processes: Major Controls on Reykjanes Peninsula Lava Chemistry, SW Iceland

• Published in: Journal of Petrology
• Main Authors: Gee, M. A. M., Thirlwall, M. F., Taylor, R. N., Lowry, D., Murton, B. J.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 1998
• Subjects: Articles; Reykjanes; Stapafell; Iceland
• Online Access: http://petrology.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/39/5/819; https://doi.org/10.1093/petroj/39.5.819

Three hundred stratigraphically constrained samples from the Reykjanes Peninsula, SW Iceland, provide the basis for this study. This area is an elevated section of mid-ocean ridge influenced by the Iceland Plume. Selected chemical, Sr, Nd and laser-assisted fluorination oxygen isotope data are prese...