Petrogenetic significance of spinel-group minerals from the ultramafic rocks of the Iti and Kallidromon ophiolites (Central Greece)

Lithos

Volumn 99, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 136-149

  Karipi, Sofia ^a   Tsikouras, Basilios ^a   Hatzipanagiotou, Konstantin ^a   Grammatikopoulos, Tassos A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Boninitic melt; Hydrothermal alteration; Iti; Kallidromon; Melt peridotite interaction; Spinel group minerals

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; HARZBURGITE; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; LHERZOLITE; OPHIOLITE; PARTIAL MELTING; PETROGENESIS; SPINEL; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

CENTRAL GREECE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; MOUNT KALLIDROMON; MOUNT OITI; PHTHIOTIS; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ITI;

EID: 35348863704     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2007.06.005     Document Type: Article

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