The alkaline-peralkaline tamazeght complex, high atlas mountains, morocco: Mineral chemistry and petrological constraints for derivation from a compositionally Heterogeneous Mantle Source

Journal of Petrology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1097-1131

  Marks, Michael A W ^a   Schilling, Julian ^a   Coulson, Ian M ^a,b   Wenzel, Thomas ^a   Markl, Gregor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alkaline magmatism; Morocco; Source heterogeneity; Tamazeght; Ti bearing andradite

Indexed keywords

EID: 44449145968     PISSN: 00223530     EISSN: 14602415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/petrology/egn019     Document Type: Article

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