A xenolith-derived geotherm and the crust-mantle boundary at Qilin, southeastern China

Lithos

Volumn 38, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 41-62

  Xu, X ^a,b   O'Reilly, S Y ^b   Zhou, X ^a   Griffin, W L ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAINOZOIC; CRUST; CRUST/MANTLE BOUNDARY; MANTLE; P/T CONDITIONS; PALAEOGEOTHERM; XENOLITH;

CHINA;

EID: 0030481950     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0024-4937(95)00043-7     Document Type: Article

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