Similarities between Archean high MgO eclogites and Phanerozoic arc-eclogite cumulates and the role of arcs in Archean continent formation

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 256, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 510-520

  Horodyskyj, Ulyana N ^a   Lee, Cin Ty Aeolus ^a   Ducea, Mihai N ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Archean; craton; eclogite; garnet pyroxenite; Sierra Nevada; xenolith

Indexed keywords

ECLOGITE; GARNET PYROXENITE; XENOLITH;

EARTH (PLANET); GARNETS; GEOCHEMISTRY; TRACE ELEMENTS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

ARCHEAN; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; ECLOGITE; GARNET; MAGMATISM; METAMORPHISM; PYROXENITE; TRACE ELEMENT; XENOLITH;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34047245279     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.02.006     Document Type: Article

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