Basalts from the Centre of the Assumed Icelandic Mantle Plume

1 January 1974

journal article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Petrology

Vol. 15 (3) , 497-524
https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/15.3.497

Abstract

Pleistocene to historic basalts in the northern part of the eastern volcanic zone in Iceland may have formed by partial melting over an extended depth range in the centre of the assumed Icelandic mantle plume.

Keywords

BASALTS
PLEISTOCENE
MELTING
DEPTH
CENTRE
PARTIAL
VOLCANIC
HISTORIC
ASSUMED ICELANDIC MANTLE