Basaltic magmatism that builds intra-plate ocean islands is often considered to be genetically associated with "hotspots" or "mantle plumes". While there have been many discussions on why ocean island basalts (OIB) ar...
The rocks of the Obudu Plateau range from high-grade metagreywacke-pelite sequence to metaigneous (granitic to tholeiitic) and polymagmatic (calc-alkaline granitic to olivine tholeiitic) igneous rocks. Several co-vari...
The term adakite was originally pro- posed to define silica-rich, high Sr/Y and La/Yb vol- canic and plutonic rocks derived from melting of the basaltic portion of oceanic crust subducted beneath volcanic arcs. It was...