Chemical and Nd isotope constraints on granitoid sources involved in the Caledonian Orogeny in Scotland

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 165, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 817-827

  Steinhoefel, Grit ^a,b   Hegner, Ernst ^a   Oliver, Grahame J H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALEDONIAN OROGENY; DALRADIAN; GRANITOID; I-TYPE ROCK; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; MELTING; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; PLATE CONVERGENCE; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; S-TYPE ROCK; TRACE ELEMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GRAMPIAN HIGHLANDS; MIDLAND VALLEY; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 48249095963     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492007-107     Document Type: Article

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