Heat-producing elements-enriched continental mantle lithosphere and Proterozoic intracontinental orogens: Insights from Brasiliano/Pan-African belts

Gondwana Research

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 427-436

  Neves, Sérgio Pacheco ^a   Mariano, Gorki ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brasiliano Pan African; Heat production; Intracontinental orogens; Lithosphere; Metasomatism

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEFORMATION; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; OROGENIC BELT; OROGENY; PLATE TECTONICS; PROTEROZOIC; RHEOLOGY;

BRAZIL; DAMARA BELT; NAMIBIA;

EID: 2142751677     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1342-937X(05)70794-2     Document Type: Article

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