Transformation of subcontinental lithospheric mantle through peridotite-melt reaction: Evidence from a highly fertile mantle xenolith from the North China craton

International Geology Review

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 658-679

  Zhang, Hong Fu ^a   Nakamura, Eizo ^b   Sun, Min ^c   Kobayashi, Katsura ^b   Zhang, Jin ^a   Ying, Ji Feng ^a   Tang, Yan Jie ^a   Niu, Li Feng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; CLINOPYROXENE; LHERZOLITE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE; MESOZOIC; OLIVINE; ORTHOPYROXENE; PALEOZOIC; PERIDOTITE; PETROLOGY; WEHRLITE; XENOLITH;

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

EID: 34447577161     PISSN: 00206814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0020-6814.49.7.658     Document Type: Article

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