Petrogenesis of Carboniferous adakites and Nb-enriched arc basalts in the Alataw area, northern Tianshan Range (western China): Implications for Phanerozoic crustal growth in the Central Asia orogenic belt

Chemical Geology

Volumn 236, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 42-64

  Wang, Qiang ^a   Wyman, Derek A ^b   Zhao, Zhen Hua ^a   Xu, Ji Feng ^a   Bai, Zheng Hua ^a   Xiong, Xiao Lin ^a   Dai, Tong Mo ^a   Li, Chao Feng ^c   Chu, Zhu Yin ^c  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Adakite; Crust growth; Mantle metasomatism; Nb enriched basalts; Slab melting; Tianshan

Indexed keywords

ADAKITE; BASALT; CARBONIFEROUS; DACITE; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MELTING; METASOMATISM; OROGENIC BELT; PETROGENESIS; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; RHYOLITE;

ASIA; CENTRAL ASIA; EURASIA; TIEN SHAN;

EID: 33751004692     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2006.08.013     Document Type: Article

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