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Titania and alumina content of oceanic and circumoceanic basalt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Felix Chayes*
Affiliation:
Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

Summary

Most circumoceanic basalts contain less and most oceanic basalts considerably more than 1·75% of TiO2. The difference of TiO2 averages is large enough to require rejection of the hypothesis that circumoeeanie basalt results from the assimilation of sial by oceanic basalt.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1965

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References

page 309 note 1 Journ. Geophys. Res., 1964, vol. 69, p. 1593.