Insight into the origin of gabbro-dioritic cumulophyric aggregates from silicic ignimbrites: Sr and Ba zoning profiles of plagioclase phenocrysts from Oligocene Ethiopian Plateau rhyolites

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 233-245

  Barbey, Pierre ^a   Ayalew, Dereje ^a,b   Yirgu, Gezahegn ^b  

^a CRPG CNRS   (France)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOOD BASALT; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; IGNIMBRITE; MAGMA CHEMISTRY; OLIGOCENE; PARTIAL MELTING; PHENOCRYST; PLAGIOCLASE; RHYOLITE;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICAN RIFT; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; ETHIOPIAN RIFT; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WORLD;

EID: 23844514773     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-004-0647-2     Document Type: Article

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