The carbonatite-marble dykes of Abyan Province, Yemen Republic: The mixing of mantle and crustal carbonate materials revealed by isotope and trace element analysis

Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 82, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 105-135

  Le Bas, M J ^a,c   Ba bttat, M A O ^b   Taylor, R N ^a   Milton, J A ^a   Windley, B F ^c   Evins, P M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; CARBONATE ROCK; CARBONATITE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DIKE; DOLOMITE; EMPLACEMENT; GNEISS; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MARBLE; MOBILIZATION; PETROGRAPHY; SOURCE ROCK; TRACE ELEMENT;

ABYAN; YEMEN;

EID: 5644272974     PISSN: 09300708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00710-004-0056-2     Document Type: Article

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