The case for Archaean boninites

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 147, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 705-721

  Smithies, Hugh R ^a   Champion, David C ^b   Sun, Shen Su ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; BONINITE; MAFIC ROCK; MANTLE PLUME; PETROGENESIS;

EID: 4444331304     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-004-0579-x     Document Type: Article

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