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Tahiti: Geochemical evolution of a French Polynesian volcano

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Duncan, Robert A., Fisk, Martin R., White, William M., and Nielsen, Roger L.

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The island of Tahiti, the largest in French Polynesia, comprises two major volcanoes aligned NW-SE, parallel with the general trend of the Society Islands hotspot track. Rocks form this volcanic system are basalts transitional to tholeiites, alkali basalts, basanites, picrites, and evolved lavas. Through K-Ar radiometric dating we have established...

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primitive aphyric lavas were derived from this parent by the crystallization of olivine alone. The majority