Mafic to felsic magmatism and crustal recycling in the Obonga lake greenstone belt, Western Superior Province: Evidence from geochemistry, Nd isotopes and U-Pb geochronology

Precambrian Research

Volumn 114, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 295-325

  Tomlinson, Kirsty Y ^a,b,c   Davis, Donald W ^c   Percival, John A ^b   Hughes, David J ^d   Thurston, Phil C ^a,e  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^e Ontario Geological Survey   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adakites; Crustal contamination; Geochemistry; Nd isotopes; Neoarchean; U Pb geochronology

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPE; LANTHANUM; LEAD; NEODYMIUM; NIOBIUM; STRONTIUM; TANTALUM; THORIUM; URANIUM; YTTERBIUM; YTTRIUM;

ADAKITE; ARCHEAN; CRUSTAL RECYCLING; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANITOID; GREENSTONE BELT; MAGMATISM; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE;

ARCHAEAN; ARTICLE; ASTHENOSPHERIC UPWELLING; CENOZOIC; CHRONOLOGY; CONTAMINATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; GRANITE; HISTORY; LAKE; RECYCLING; ROCK; SEDIMENT; VOLCANO;

CANADA;

EID: 0037088940     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-9268(01)00232-7     Document Type: Article

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