Petrology and geochemistry of a cumulate xenolith suite from Bute: Evidence for late Palaeozoic crustal underplating beneath SW Scotland

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 164, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1217-1231

  Downes, H ^a   Upton, B G J ^b   Connolly, J ^a   Beard, A D ^a   Bodinier, J L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALI BASALT; ANORTHOSITE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; GEOCHEMISTRY; MANTLE SOURCE; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; PALEOZOIC; PERMIAN; PETROLOGY; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; TEXTURE; UNDERPLATING; XENOLITH;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 35748935855     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492006-177     Document Type: Article

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