Niobium-enriched basalts from the Wabigoon subprovince, Canada: Evidence for adakitic metasomatism above an Archean subduction zone

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 179, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 21-30

  Wyman, D A ^a   Ayer, J A ^b   Devaney, J R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Ontario Geological Survey   (Canada)

Author keywords

Archean; Basalts; Metamorphism; Niobium; Subduction zones

Indexed keywords

ADAKITE; ARCHEAN; BASALT; METASOMATISM; NIOBIUM; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

CANADA;

EID: 0033921249     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(00)00106-0     Document Type: Article

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