Incompatible element patterns of Ascension basalt flows

Normalized to primordial mantle values of Sun and McDonough (1989). A peculiar feature of many of the Ascension basalt and hawaiite flows is anomalous enrichment in P, evident from the P "spike" in the diagram. Shown for comparison are patterns for basalt flows from St. Helena.

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