Lower crustal melting and the role of open-system processes in the genesis of syn-orogenic quartz diorite-granite-leucogranite associations: Constraints from Sr-Nd-O isotopes from the Bandombaai Complex, Namibia

Lithos

Volumn 67, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 205-226

  van de Flierdt, Tina ^a   Hoernes, Stephan ^a   Jung, Stefan ^b,c   Masberg, Peter ^c   Hoffer, Edgar ^c   Schaltegger, Urs ^d,e   Friedrichsen, Hans ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^f FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Damara orogen; Granites; Isotope geochemistry; Lower crustal melting; Namibia; Pan African

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL RECYCLING; DIORITE; GRANITE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LEUCOGRANITE; MELTING; PAN AFRICAN OROGENY; PETROGENESIS;

KAOKO BELT; NAMIBIA;

EID: 0037376583     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0024-4937(03)00016-1     Document Type: Article

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