Nature and evolution of Late Cretaceous lithospheric mantle beneath the eastern North China Craton: Constraints from petrology and geochemistry of peridotitic xenoliths from Jünan, Shandong Province, China

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 244, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 622-638

  Ying, Jifeng ^a   Zhang, Hongfu ^a   Kita, Noriko ^b   Morishita, Yuichi ^b   Shimoda, Gen ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

basalts; lithospheric evolution; melt rock interaction; North China Craton; peridotitic xenoliths

Indexed keywords

LITHOSPHERIC EVOLUTION; MELT/ROCK INTERACTION; PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; PERIDOTITIC XENOLITHS;

BASALT; GEOCHEMISTRY; IGNEOUS ROCKS; MAGNESIUM PRINTING PLATES; OLIVINE; PETROLOGY; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; TEXTURES;

LITHOLOGY;

BASALT; BRECCIA; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; PERIDOTITE; XENOLITH;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NORTH CHINA BLOCK; SHANDONG;

EID: 33645897985     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.02.023     Document Type: Article

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