Generation of voluminous silicic magmas and formation of mid-Cenozoic crust beneath north-central Mexico: Evidence from ignimbrites, associated lavas, deep crustal granulites, and mantle pyroxenites

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 375-389

  Smith, R D ^a   Cameron, K L ^a   McDowell, F W ^b   Niemeyer, Sid ^c   Sampson, D E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSIMILATION; CRUSTAL FORMATION; IGNIMBRITE; MELT GENERATION; TERTIARY; XENOLITH;

EID: 0030434410     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004100050163     Document Type: Article

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