Monzonite suites: The innermost Cordilleran plutonism of Patagonia

Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Sciences

Volumn 87, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 193-203

  Rapela, C W ^a   Pankhurst, R J ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Andes; Deseado Massif; Geochemistry; Granites; Isotopes; Jurassic; Modelling; Petrogenesis; South America; Subduction

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; GRANITE; JURASSIC; PETROGENESIS; SUBDUCTION;

ARGENTINA, PATAGONIA, DESEADO MASSIF;

EID: 0030433606     PISSN: 02635933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s026359330000660x     Document Type: Article

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