Magma underplating and storage in the crust-building process beneath the Kutch region, NW India

Current Science

Volumn 94, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1582-1588

  Karmalkar, N R ^a   Kale, M G ^a   Duraiswami, R A ^a   Jonalgadda, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUNE   (India)

Author keywords

Crust building process; Magma; Ultramafic xenoliths; Underplating and storage

Indexed keywords

EID: 47249084834     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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