Petrology and mineral chemistry of lower crustal intrusions: The chilas complex, Kohistan (NW Pakistan)

Journal of Petrology

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1895-1953

  Jagoutz, Oliver ^a,b   Müntener, Othmar ^b,d   Ulmer, Peter ^a   Pettke, Thomas ^b   Burg, Jean Pierre ^a   Dawood, Hamid ^c   Hussain, Shahid ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c PAKISTAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Pakistan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Gabbro; Island arc; Kohistan; Lower crustal intrusion; Trace element modelling

Indexed keywords

CLINOPYROXENE; CRYSTALLIZATION; GABBRO; ISLAND ARC; PETROLOGY; RIFTING; TRACE ELEMENT; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK;

ASIA; EURASIA; KOHISTAN; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 34848887259     PISSN: 00223530     EISSN: 14602415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/petrology/egm044     Document Type: Article

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