The geochemistry of ultramafic to mafic volcanics from the belingwe greenstone belt, Zimbabwe: Magmatism in an archean continental large igneous province

Journal of Petrology

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2367-2394

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

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Belingwe greenstone belt; Continental flood basalt; Crustal assimilation; Komatiite; Plume magmatism

Indexed keywords

GREENSTONE BELT; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK; VOLCANIC ROCK;

AFRICA; BELINGWE GREENSTONE BELT; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WORLD; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 27744442262     PISSN: 00223530     EISSN: 14602415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/petrology/egi059     Document Type: Article

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