Mineral chemistry of ultramafic massifs in the Southern Uralides orogenic belt (Russia) and the petrogenesis of the Lower Palaeozoic ophiolites of the Uralian Ocean

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 218, Issue , 2004, Pages 567-596

  Spadea, P ^a   Zanetti, A ^b   Vannucci, R ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; GEOCHEMISTRY; OPHIOLITE; OROGENIC BELT; PALEOZOIC; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

EURASIA; URALS;

MOHO;

EID: 2942542492     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2003.218.01.29     Document Type: Article

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