Pliocene granodioritic knoll with continental crust affinities discovered in the intra-oceanic Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc: Syntectonic granitic crust formation during back-arc rifting

A widely held hypothesis is that modern continental crust of an intermediate (i.e. andesitic) bulk composition forms at intra-oceanic arcs through subduction zone magmatism. However, there is a critical paradox in this hypothesis: to date, the dominant granitic rocks discovered in these arcs are ton...

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Main Authors: Tani, K., Dunkley, Daniel, Chang, Q., Nichols, A., Shukuno, H., Hirahara, Y., Ishizuka, O., Arima, M., Tatsumi, Y.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier BV 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/60339