Replenishment episodes and crustal assimilation in the development of an early Tertiary magma chamber, East Greenland: Evidence from layered cumulates of the Kælvegletscher ultramafic complex, Kangerlussuaq

Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 279-304

  Praegel N O ^a   Holm, P M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; CUMULATE; DUNITE; EMPLACEMENT; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MAGMA CHAMBER; TERTIARY; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK;

ARCTIC; EAST GREENLAND; GREENLAND; KANGERLUSSUAQ FJORD;

EID: 0042316880     PISSN: 09300708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007100170003     Document Type: Article

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