Palaeozoic subduction-related and kimberlite or carbonatite metasomatism in the Scottish lithospheric mantle

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 293, Issue , 2008, Pages 303-333

  Bonadiman, Constanza ^a   Coltorti, M ^a   Duggen, S ^b,c,d   Paludetti, L ^a   Siena, F ^a   Thirlwall, M F ^b   Upton, B G J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATITE; CLINOPYROXENE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENTRAINMENT; HOST ROCK; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; KIMBERLITE; METASOMATISM; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; PALEOZOIC; PERIDOTITE; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC SETTING; XENOLITH;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GLENFINNAN; HIGHLAND; ORKNEY; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 38549139107     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP293.14     Document Type: Article

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