Contributions of the lower crust to Mesozoic mantle-derived mafic rocks from the North China Craton: Implications for lithospheric thinning

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 280, Issue , 2007, Pages 55-75

  Huang, F ^a,b   Li, S G ^a   Yang, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL CRUST; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LITHOSPHERE; LOWER CRUST; MAFIC ROCK; MANTLE; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; MESOZOIC; METASOMATISM; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE;

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

EID: 34447581225     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP280.3     Document Type: Review

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