Nitrogen-isotope record of fluid-rock interactions in the Skiddaw aureole and granite, English Lake District

American Mineralogist

Volumn 84, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1495-1505

  Bebout, Gray E ^a   Cooper, Derek C ^b   Don Bradley, A ^b,c   Sadofsky, Seth J ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c Pond Farm   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; ALUMINUM OXIDE; BIOTITE; COOLING SYSTEMS; ISOTOPES; LAKES; LITHOLOGY; MICA; NITROGEN; OXIDE MINERALS; RUBIDIUM COMPOUNDS; SILICA; SILICATES; SILICON; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TRACE ELEMENTS;

CARBONACEOUS MATTER; CONTACT METAMORPHISM; CRUSTAL FLUIDS; DEVOLATILIZATION; FLUID-ROCK INTERACTION; METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; SCALE TRANSFER;

GRANITE;

CONTACT METAMORPHISM; GRANITE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; NITROGEN; WATER-ROCK INTERACTION;

CUMBRIA; LAKE DISTRICT; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0033373447     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am-1999-1002     Document Type: Article

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