Helium isotope signature of lithospheric mantle xenoliths from the Permo-Carboniferous magmatic province in Scotland - No evidence for a lower-mantle plume

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 223, Issue , 2004, Pages 243-258

  Kirstein, L A ^a,b   Dunai, T J ^a   Davies, G R ^a   Upton, B G J ^b   Nikogosian, I K ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS; HELIUM ISOTOPE; MAGMATISM; NOBLE GAS; PERMIAN; XENOLITH;

EURASIA; EUROPE; HIGHLAND; MIDLAND VALLEY; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ARCHAEA;

EID: 3242751841     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.223.01.11     Document Type: Article

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