Petrology Samples from the Submarine Tonga Arc Collected during the TELVE and NoToVE Cruises

Abstract: This is a report describing petrological samples from the submarine Tonga Arc collected during the TELVE and NoToVE Cruises in 2003-2004 aboard the RV Southern Surveyor. This report derives from the original cruise report authored by Richard Arculus, and includes a detailed accounting of each dredge station (time and location on and off the bottom), and a description of each sample taken for petrological study. Geochemical data, including the primary dataset for volatile species in Tonga arc melt inclusions, are reported for a subset of these samples in Lauren Cooper's PhD Thesis (Boston University, 2009). This subset of samples are also registered in SESAR.

Other Description: Lauren Cooper (Ph.D.; Boston Univ., 2009) Volatiles in Tonga arc magmas and their role in unraveling subduction zone processes.

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Cooper, L. B., T. Plank, R. J. Arculus, E. H. Hauri, P. S. Hall, and S. W. Parman (2010), High-Ca boninites from the active Tonga Arc, J. Geophys. Res., 115, B10206, doi:10.1029/2009JB006367.