Modelling anatexis in intra-cratonic rift basins: An example from the Neoproterozoic rocks of the Scottish highlands

Geological Magazine

Volumn 138, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 577-588

  Ryan, Paul D ^a   Jack Soper, N ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b Gams Bank   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STRATIGRAPHY;

BASIN-BOUNDING FAULTS; COLLISIONAL PROCESS; CONFLICTING EVIDENCE; DECOMPRESSION MELTING; FINITE ELEMENT TECHNIQUES; LITHOSPHERIC EXTENSION; NEOPROTEROZOIC ROCKS; STRATIGRAPHIC RECORDS;

GRANITE;

ANATEXIS; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; MODELING; PROTEROZOIC; RIFT ZONE;

SCOTLAND (HIGHLAND); UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0035204994     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0016756801005696     Document Type: Article

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