Thermal history of Colorado Plateau lithosphere from Sm-Nd mineral geochronology of xenoliths

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 108, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 757-767

  Wendlandt, Eric ^a   DePaolo, Donald J ^a   Baldridge, W Scott ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; GARNETS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; IGNEOUS ROCKS; ISOTOPES; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; NEODYMIUM; NEODYMIUM ALLOYS; RUBIDIUM ALLOYS; SAMARIUM ALLOYS; STRONTIUM ALLOYS; TEXTURES; URANIUM ALLOYS; ROCKS; SAMARIUM;

CLINOPYROXENES; COLORADO PLATEAU; CRYSTALLIZATION AGE; EARLY PALEOZOIC; EQUILIBRATION DEPTHS; MINERAL TEXTURE; THERMAL HISTORY; THERMAL MAXIMA; LITHOSPHERE; XENOLITHS;

MINERALS; GEOLOGY;

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; GARNET; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE; PROTEROZOIC; RECRYSTALLIZATION; RUBIDIUM-STRONTIUM DATING; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; THERMAL CONVECTION; XENOLITH; CRUST (LOWER); MANTLE (UPPER); SAMARIUM/NEODYMIUM DATING; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

COLORADO PLATEAU; UNITED STATES; USA, COLORADO PLATEAU;

EID: 0030184169     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1996)108<0757:THOCPL>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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