Petrogenesis of a Mesoproterozoic quartz latite-granitoid suite from the Roxby Downs area, South Australia

Precambrian Research

Volumn 79, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 371-394

  Creaser, Robert A ^a,b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; GRANITE; PARTIAL MELTING; PETROGENESIS; PETROLOGY;

AUSTRALIA, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, ROXBY DOWNS;

EID: 0030483152     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-9268(96)00002-2     Document Type: Article

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