Trace element and Sm-Nd systematics of volcanic and intrusive rocks from the 3 Ga Lumby Lake Greenstone belt, Superior Province: Evidence for Archean plume-arc interaction

Lithos

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 189-213

  Hollings, Pete ^a   Wyman, Derek ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Archean; Komatiite; Plateau; Subduction; Tholeiite

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000743062     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0024-4937(98)00062-0     Document Type: Article

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