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- and rhyolite. The variety of basalt in the series was originally called tholeiite but the International Union of Geological Sciences recommends that tholeiitic...
- fed lava to the surface. Flood basalts are most often quartz tholeiites. Olivine tholeiite (the characteristic rock of mid-ocean ridges) occurs less commonly...
- magmas (wt%) Magma composition H2O concentration wt % MORB (tholeiites) 0.1 – 0.2 Island tholeiite 0.3 – 0.6 Alkali basalts 0.8 – 1.5 Volcanic arc basalts...
- trace-element composition. Ocean island basalts include both tholeiites and alkali basalts; the tholeiites predominate early in the eruptive history of the island...
- in the ****anese island arc system where the volcanic rocks change from tholeiite—calc-alkaline—alkaline with increasing distance from the trench. Some...
- the El Cobre Group, Sierra Maestra, Eastern Cuba: A case of island arc tholeiites Source: Acta Geológica Hispánica 33 (1–4) 57–74 Chiappy-Jhones C., Rico-Gray...
- Most of the moais in Easter Island are carved out of tholeiite basalt tuff....
- has distributed volcanic series where the volcanic rocks change from tholeiite—calc-alkaline—alkaline with increasing distance from the trench. The geologic...
- ; Brügmann, G.; Kent, R. W. (2004). "Origin of Cretaceous continental tholeiites in southwestern Australia and eastern India: insights from Hf and Os isotopes"...
- Tertiary and Quaternary. Arthur, J. D., 1988, Petrogenesis of Early Mesozoic tholeiite in the Florida ba****t and overview of Florida ba****t geology: Florida...