Re-Os isotopic evidence for a lower crustal origin of massif-type anorthosites

Nature

Volumn 405, Issue 6788, 2000, Pages 781-784

  Schiellerup, Henrik ^a   Lambert, David D ^b,e   Prestvik, Tore ^a   Robins, Brian ^c   McBride, Jannene S ^b   Larsen, Rune B ^d  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^e USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OSMIUM; RHENIUM;

ANORTHOSITE; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; LOWER CRUST; MAGMATISM; PARENT BODY; PLAGIOCLASE; PROTEROZOIC; RHENIUM-OSMIUM DATING;

ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; GEOLOGY; MELTING POINT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK;

NORWAY;

EID: 0034660514     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35015546     Document Type: Article

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