The petrogenesis and tectonic setting of ultramafic rocks from Iti and Kallidromon Mountains, continental cental Greece: Vestiges of the Pindos Ocean

Canadian Mineralogist

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 267-287

  Karipi, Sofia ^a   Tsikouras, Basilios ^a   Hatzipanagiotou, Konstantin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Greece; Iti; Kallidromon; Melt peridotite interaction; Ophiolite; Platinum group elements; Rare earth elements; Ultramafic rocks

Indexed keywords

GREECE; MELT-PERIDOTITE INTERACTION; OPHIOLITES; PETROGENESIS; PLATINUM-GROUP ELEMENTS; ULTRAMAFIC ROCKS;

ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; COMPOSITION; PETROLOGY; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; TECTONICS;

IGNEOUS ROCKS;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; HARZBURGITE; LHERZOLITE; MINERALOGY; OPHIOLITE; PETROGENESIS; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENT; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; TECTONIC SETTING; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ITI;

EID: 33646712178     PISSN: 00084476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gscanmin.44.1.267     Document Type: Article

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