Dating the mantle roots of young continental crust

Geology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 237-240

  Wittig, Nadine ^a,b   Baker, Joel A ^a,b   Downes, Hilary ^c  

^a DANISH LITHOSPHERE CENTRE   (Denmark)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Europe; Geochronology; Lu Hf isotopes; Mantle xenoliths; Subcontinental lithosphere; Variscan orogeny

Indexed keywords

EUROPE; MANTLE METASOMATISM; MANTLE ROOTS; MELT EXTRACTION; SUBCONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; VARISCAN OROGENY; XENOLITHS; HF ISOTOPE; MANTLE XENOLITHS; VARISCAN OROGENIES;

HAFNIUM; ISOTOPES; METEORITES; NEODYMIUM; ROCKS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; BINARY ALLOYS; EXTRACTION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LUTETIUM ALLOYS; MINERALOGY;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; HAFNIUM ALLOYS;

DATING METHOD; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; CLINOPYROXENE; CONTINENTAL CRUST; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MANTLE; MELT; METASOMATISM; SUBDUCTION; TAXONOMY;

FRANCE; MASSIF CENTRAL;

EID: 33645720506     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G22135.1     Document Type: Article

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