Nature and significance of a Cambro-Ordovician high-K, calc-alkaline sub-volcanic suite: The late- to post-orogenic Motru Dyke Swarm (Southern Carpathians, Romania)

International Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 479-496

  Féménias, Olivier ^a   Berza, Tudor ^b   Tatu, Mihai ^c   Diot, Hervé ^d,e   Demaiffe, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b Institutul Geologic al României ^*  (Romania)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEODYNAMICS   (Romania)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Calc alkaline; Dyke Swarm; Geochemistry; Late to post orogenic; Romania

Indexed keywords

ANDESITE; BASALT; CALC ALKALINE ROCK; CAMBRIAN; CRUSTAL CONTAMINATION; DIKE SWARM; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; MAGMA; MAGMATISM; MANTLE SOURCE; MELTING; ORDOVICIAN; OROGENY; PAN AFRICAN OROGENY; PETROLOGY; PHENOCRYST; RHYOLITE; SUBDUCTION; TRACE ELEMENT;

CARPATHIANS; EURASIA; EUROPE; GORJ; MOTRU; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

LILE;

EID: 42149182421     PISSN: 14373254     EISSN: 14373262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00531-007-0178-y     Document Type: Article

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