Late Cretaceous Gangdese intrusions of adakitic geochemical characteristics, SE Tibet: Petrogenesis and tectonic implications

Lithos

Volumn 105, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 1-11

  Wen, Da Ren ^a   Chung, Sun Lin ^a   Song, Biao ^b   Iizuka, Yoshiyuki ^c   Yang, Huai Jen ^d   Ji, Jianqing ^e   Liu, Dunyi ^b   Gallet, Sylvain ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Adakite; Gangdese batholith; Granodiorite; Lower crust melting; Tibet

Indexed keywords

ADAKITE; BATHOLITH; CONVERGENT MARGIN; CRETACEOUS; EMPLACEMENT; EOCENE; GRANODIORITE; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; LOWER CRUST; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PARTIAL MELTING; PETROGRAPHY; TECTONIC SETTING; UNDERPLATING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GANGDISE MOUNTAINS; XIZANG;

EID: 51649124949     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2008.02.005     Document Type: Article

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