Eocene shoshonitic mafic dykes intruding the Monashee Complex, British Columbia: A petrogenetic relationship with the Kamloops Group volcanic sequence?

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 11-24

  Adams, Matthew G ^a   Lentz, David R ^a   Shaw, Cliff S J ^a   Williams, Paul F ^a   Archibald, Douglas A ^b   Cousens, Brian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; CARBONATES; EARTH SCIENCES; HEATING; ISOTOPES; MELTING; MINERALOGY; NEODYMIUM; STRONTIUM; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

FEEDER SYSTEMS; LITHOPHILE ELEMENTS; PLATEAU; SHOSHONITIC MAFIC DYKES;

PETROLOGY;

DIKE; EOCENE; IGNEOUS INTRUSION;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 17144422180     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/E04-091     Document Type: Article

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