Geochemistry of the late Archean Banting Group, Yellowknife greenstone belt, Slave Province, Canada: Simultaneous melting of the upper mantle and juvenile mafic crust

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1635-1656

  Cousens, Brian ^a   Facey, Kathy ^a   Falck, Hendrik ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

MANTLE;

GEOCHEMISTRY;

FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; GREENSTONE BELT; MELTING; TECTONIC SETTING; UPPER MANTLE; VOLCANIC ROCK;

CANADA;

EID: 0036873788     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e02-070     Document Type: Review

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