Boron and arsenic in highly evolved Archean felsic rocks: Implications for Archean subduction processes

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 274, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 479-488

  Mohan, M Ram ^a,b   Kamber, Balz S ^a   Piercey, Stephen J ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

archean; arsenic; boron; petrogenesis; subduction; TTG

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; CRYSTALLIZING PHASES; ECLOGITE; GEOCHEMICAL SIGNATURES; GRANITOIDS; IN-BETWEEN; MAGMATISM; MANTLE METASOMATISM; MOBILE ELEMENTS; PETROGENESIS; SUBDUCTION; SUBDUCTION PROCESSES; SUBDUCTION ZONE MAGMAS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TTG;

ARSENIC; ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; BORON; BORON COMPOUNDS; CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; GALLIUM; GARNETS; LITHIUM; MINERALOGY; NONMETALS; OLIVINE; SCANDIUM; SILICATE MINERALS; TECTONICS;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

ARCHEAN; ARSENIC; BORON; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; FELSIC ROCK; GRANITOID; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; MAGMATISM; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TRACE ELEMENT;

EID: 52949151909     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.07.042     Document Type: Article

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