Discovery of Archean continental and mantle fragments inferred from xenocrysts in komatiites, the Belingwe greenstone belt, Zimbabwe

Geology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 285-288

  Shimizu, Kenji ^a   Nakamura, Eizo ^a   Kobayashi, Katsura ^a   Maruyama, Shigenori ^b  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Tokyo Institute of Technology ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

Belingwe; Continental flood basalt; Crustal assimilation; Garnet; Komatiite; Xenocryst

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL FRAGMENTS; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; MANTLE FRAGMENTS;

BASALT; COMPOSITION; LOW TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; MELTING; QUENCHING; TRACE ELEMENTS;

GEOLOGY;

ARCHEAN; FLOOD BASALT; GARNET; GREENSTONE BELT; KOMATIITE; MAGMA ASSIMILATION; PETROGENESIS; XENOLITH;

AFRICA; BELINGWE GREENSTONE BELT; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 2042523552     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G20162.1     Document Type: Article

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