Gabbroic xenoliths in tuff-breccia pipes from the Hyblean Plateau: Insights into the nature and composition of the lower crust underneath South-eastern Sicily, Italy

Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 86, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 63-88

  Scribano, V ^a   Sapienza, G ^b   Braga, R ^b   Morten, L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRECCIA; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DIATREME; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; GABBRO; PETROGRAPHY; TUFF; XENOLITH;

HYBLEAN PLATEAU; ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 31044431977     PISSN: 09300708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00710-005-0092-6     Document Type: Article

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