Petrogenesis of the Early Jurassic Nandaling flood basalts in the Yanshan belt, North China Craton: A correlation between magmatic underplating and lithospheric thinning

Lithos

Volumn 96, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 543-566

  Wang, Zhihong ^a   Zhao, Yue ^b   Zou, Haibo ^c   Li, Wuping ^d   Liu, Xiaowen ^e   Wu, Hai ^e   Xu, Gang ^b   Zhang, Suanhong ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^e Chongqing Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources   (China)

Author keywords

Early Jurassic Nandaling flood basalts; Lithospheric thinning; Magmatic underplating; North China Craton; Petrogenesis

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL THINNING; FLOOD BASALT; JURASSIC; PETROGENESIS; UNDERPLATING;

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

EID: 34249660143     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2006.12.004     Document Type: Article

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