Xenolith evidence for lithospheric melting above anomalously hot mantle under the northern Canadian Cordillera

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 39-53

  Shi, Lang ^a   Francis, Don ^a   Ludden, John ^b,d   Frederiksen, Andrew ^c   Bostock, Michael ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d CRPG CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE; MELTING; XENOLITH;

CANADA;

EID: 0032450383     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004100050377     Document Type: Article

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