Ca. 825 Ma komatiitic basalts in South China: First evidence for > 1500 °C mantle melts by a Rodinian mantle plume

Geology

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1103-1106

  Wang, Xuan Ce ^a,b   Li, Xian Hua ^a,d   Li, Wu Xian ^a   Li, Zheng Xiang ^c  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Komatiitic basalts; Mantle plume; Neoproterozoic; Rodinia; SHRIMP U Pb zircon age; South China

Indexed keywords

KOMATIITE; MANTLE PLUME; NEOPROTEROZOIC; SENSITIVE HIGH-RESOLUTION ION MICROPROBE (SHRIMP);

BASALT; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOPHYSICS; PETROLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

MINERALOGY;

BASALT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; KOMATIITE; MANTLE PLUME; PILLOW LAVA; PROTEROZOIC; RODINIA;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 37449030033     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G23878A.1     Document Type: Article

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