The role of subducted basalt in the source of island arc magmas: Evidence from seafloor lavas of the western Aleutians

• Published in: Journal of Petrology
• Main Authors: Yogodzinski, G. M., Brown, S. T., Keleman, P. B., Vervoort, J. D., Portnyagin, Maxim, Sims, M., Hoernle, Kaj, Jicha, B., Werner, Reinhard
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Press 2015
• Subjects: Dy; Buldir Volcano; Kamchatka; Alaska
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/26516/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/26516/1/Yogodzinski.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egv006

Discovery of seafloor volcanism west of Buldir Volcano, the westernmost emergent volcano in the Aleutian arc, demonstrates that surface expression of active Aleutian volcanism falls below sea level just west of 175·9°E longitude, but is otherwise continuous from mainland Alaska to Kamchatka. Lavas d...