Craton reactivation on the Labrador Sea margins: 40Ar/39Ar age and Sr-Nd-Hf-Pb isotope constraints from alkaline and carbonatite intrusives

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 256, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 433-454

  Tappe, Sebastian ^a   Foley, Stephen F ^b   Stracke, Andreas ^a   Romer, Rolf L ^c   Kjarsgaard, Bruce A ^d   Heaman, Larry M ^e   Joyce, Nancy ^d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

aillikite; carbonatite metasomatism; lamproite; lithosphere thinning; nephelinite; North Atlantic craton

Indexed keywords

CRATON; LITHOSPHERE-ASTHENOSPHERE INTERACTION; VOLATILE-RICH ALKALINE MAGMATISM;

ALKALINE EARTH METALS; BINARY MIXTURES; EARTH (PLANET); ISOTOPES; PETROLOGY; TRACE ELEMENTS;

GEOCHEMISTRY;

CARBONATITE; CRATON; CRUSTAL THINNING; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; LAMPROITE; LITHOSPHERE; MAGMATISM; METASOMATISM; NEPHELINITE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); LABRADOR SEA;

EID: 34047265665     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.01.036     Document Type: Article

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