Mantle melting beneath the Tibetan Plateau: Experimental constraints on ultrapotassic magmatism

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Holbig, Eva S ^a,b   Grove, Timothy L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÄT BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CRUSTAL THINNING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; MAGMATISM; MANTLE PROCESS; MELTING; METASOMATISM; MIOCENE; MOHO; P-T CONDITIONS; PHASE EQUILIBRIUM; POTASSIC ROCK; TERRANE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QIANGTANG BASIN; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; XIZANG;

EID: 45149116631     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JB005149     Document Type: Article

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