Petrogenesis of the earliest Early Cretaceous mafic rocks from the Cona area of the eastern Tethyan Himalaya in south Tibet: Interaction between the incubating Kerguelen plume and the eastern Greater India lithosphere?

Lithos

Volumn 100, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 147-173

  Zhu, Dicheng ^a,b,c   Mo, Xuanxue ^b   Pan, Guitang ^a   Zhao, Zhidan ^b   Dong, Guochen ^b   Shi, Yuruo ^c   Liao, Zhongli ^a   Wang, Liquan ^a   Zhou, Changyong ^a  

^a CHENGDU INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Cona mafic rocks; Geochemistry; Kerguelen plume; SHRIMP zircon dating; Tethyan Himalaya

Indexed keywords

BASALT; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CRETACEOUS; DIABASE; DIKE; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; MAFIC ROCK; MANTLE PLUME; PARTIAL MELTING; PETROGENESIS; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SHRIMP DATING; SILL; TRACE ELEMENT;

ASIA; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; XIZANG;

EID: 37549025373     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2007.06.024     Document Type: Article

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