Zirconolite and baddeleyite in an ultramafic suite from southern India: Early Ordovician carbonatite-type melts associated with extensional collapse of the Gondwana crust

Journal of Geology

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 171-188

  Rajesh, V J ^a   Yokoyama, K ^a,b   Santosh, M ^a,c   Arai, S ^a,d   Oh, C W ^a   Kim, S W ^a  

^a Chonbuk National University   (South Korea)

^b DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY   (Japan)

^c KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BADDELEYITE; CARBONATITE; GONDWANA; ORDOVICIAN; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK; ZIRCONOLITE;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33644988482     PISSN: 00221376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/499571     Document Type: Article

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