The geochemistry of the Mull-Morvern Tertiary lava succession, NW Scotland: an assessment of mantle sources during plume-related volcanism

• Published in: Chemical Geology
• Main Author: Kerr, Andrew Craig
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 1995
• Subjects: GC Oceanography; QE Geology; Mull; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/9566/; https://doi.org/10.1016/0009-2541(95)00009-B

Palaeocene basaltic magmatism on the northwestern coast of Britain, represents one of the earliest manifestations of the arrival and decompression melting of the North Atlantic plume below the region. This study is concerned with the geochemistry of the 1800-m-thick Mull lava succession, and attempt...