Petrology and geochemistry of the Gore-Gambella plutonic rocks: Implications for magma genesis and the tectonic setting of the Pan-African Orogenic Belt of western Ethiopia

Journal of African Earth Sciences

Volumn 27, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 397-416

  Ayalew, Teklewold ^a   Peccerillo, Angelo ^b  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRANITOID; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; MAGMATISM; PETROGENESIS; TECTONIC SETTING;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 0032462272     PISSN: 08995362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0899-5362(98)00070-0     Document Type: Article

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