Tectonic insight into a pericratonic subcrustal lithosphere affected by anorogenic Cretaceous magmatism in central Brazil inferred from long-period Magnetotellurics

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 241, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 603-616

  Bologna, Maurício S ^a   Padilha, Antonio L ^a   Vitorello, Ícaro ^a   Fontes, Sergio L ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b MCT   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Archean craton; Central Brazil; Cretaceous magmatism; Magnetotellurics; Metasomatism

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN CRATON; BRAZIL; MAGNETOTELLURICS; METASOMATISM;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; OLIVINE; PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); RHEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

SEISMOLOGY;

CRETACEOUS; LITHOSPHERE; MAGMATISM; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; TECTONIC SETTING;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 30744479240     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.11.022     Document Type: Article

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