Geochemical properties of lithospheric mantle beneath the Sino-Korea craton; evidence from garnet xenocrysts and diamond inclusions

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 107, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 249-260

  Wang, Wuyi ^a   Takahashi, Eiichi ^a   Sueno, Shigeho ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAMOND; GARNET; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; XENOCRYST;

KOREA;

EID: 0344863175     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9201(97)00137-4     Document Type: Article

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