Reduced rapakivi-type granites: The tholeiite connection

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 647-650

  Frost, Carol D ^a   Frost, B Ronald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELTING; OXYGEN;

ANOROGENIC SUITES; BASALTIC MELTS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; PARTIAL MELTING; PERALUMINOUS; SHALLOW DEPTHS; THOLEIITIC ROCKS; LOW OXYGEN; THOLEIITE;

GRANITE;

BASALT; CONTINENTAL CRUST; FELSIC ROCK; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; MAGMA; PARTIAL MELTING; RAPAKIVI; RHYOLITE; THOLEIITE; PETROGENESIS; RAPAKIVI GRANITE;

EID: 0030831036     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0647:RRTGTT>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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