The Iceland Microcontinent and a continental Greenland-Iceland-Faroe Ridge
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Continental crust beneath southeast Iceland.
The magmatic activity (0-16 Ma) in Iceland is linked to a deep mantle plume that has been active for the past 62 My. Icelandic and northeast Atlantic basalts contain variable proportions of two enriched components, interpreted as recycled oceanic crust supplied by the plume, and subcontinental lithospheric mantle derived from the nearby continental margins. A restricted area in southeast Icelan...
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عنوان ژورنال: Earth-Science Reviews
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0012-8252
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.102926