Origins of the Zippa Mountain pluton: A Late Triassic, arc-derived, ultrapotassic magma from the Canadian Cordillera

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1415-1434

  Coulson, Ian M ^a   Russell, James K ^a   Dipple, Gregory M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; PETROGENESIS; PETROLOGY; POTASSIC ROCK;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; ZIPPA MOUNTAIN;

EID: 0033509804     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e99-045     Document Type: Article

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