Compositional heterogeneity of the continental lithospheric mantle beneath the Early Precambrian and Phanerozoic structures: Evidence from mantle xenoliths in kimberlites and alkaline basalts

Geochemistry International

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1077-1102

  Glebovitsky, V A ^a   Nikitina, L P ^a   Saltykova, A K ^a   Ovchinnikov, N O ^a   Babushkina, M S ^a   Egorov, K N ^b   Ashchepkov, I V ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PRECAMBRIAN GEOLOGY AND GEOCHRONOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF THE EARTH S CRUST   (Russian Federation)

^c SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; IGNEOUS ROCKS; PETROLOGY; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; TRACE ELEMENTS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

ALKALINE BASALTS; COMPOSITIONAL HETEROGENEITY; KIMBERLITES; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; MANTLE XENOLITH;

GEOCHEMISTRY;

ALKALI BASALT; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; KIMBERLITE; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; PRECAMBRIAN; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; TRACE ELEMENT; XENOLITH;

EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIAN PLATFORM;

EID: 37349089862     PISSN: 00167029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1134/S001670290711002X     Document Type: Article

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