Residual-liquid origin for a monzonitic intrusion in a mid-Proterozoic anorthosite complex: The Sybille intrusion, Laramie anorthosite complex, Wyoming

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 108, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1357-1371

  Scoates, James S ^a,c   Frost, Carol D ^a   Mitchell, Jeremy N ^a,d   Lindsley, Donald H ^b   Frost, B Ronald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUROPIUM; FELDSPAR; GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; ISOTOPES; LIQUIDS; MAGNETITE; NEODYMIUM COMPOUNDS; OLIVINE; QUARTZ; ROCKS; ROOFS; SILICATE MINERALS; STRATIGRAPHY; STRONTIUM;

ANHYDROUS MINERALS; BJERKREIM-SOKNDAL INTRUSIONS; COMPOSITIONAL SIMILARITIES; CRYSTALLIZATION CONDITIONS; CRYSTALLIZATION TEMPERATURE; EQUILIBRIUM CRYSTALLIZATION; ISOTOPIC CHARACTERISTICS; ND ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS; ARCHEAN; MAGMA CHAMBER; PARENT MAGMAS; PROTEROZOIC; RESIDUAL LIQUID; WYOMING;

IODINE COMPOUNDS; GALLIUM COMPOUNDS;

ALKALI FELDSPAR; ANORTHOSITE; CRYSTALLIZATION; GEOCHEMICAL SURVEY; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; LARAMIDE OROGENY; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MONZONITE; PETROGRAPHY; PROTEROZOIC; RESIDUAL FLOW; XENOLITH; PETROGENESIS; RESIDUAL LIQUID;

UNITED STATES; WYOMING; LARAMIE COMPLEX; USA;

EID: 0030436947     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1996)108<1357:RLOFAM>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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