First alkaline magmatism during Iberia-Newfoundland rifting

Terra Nova

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 494-503

  Grange, Marion ^a,c   Schärer, Urs ^a   Cornen, Guy ^b   Girardeau, Jacques ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE ROCK; EMPLACEMENT; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MAGMATISM; METASOMATISM; PALEOZOIC; PARTIAL MELTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANADA; EURASIA; EUROPE; LISBOA [PORTUGAL]; LUSITANIAN BASIN; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; NORTH AMERICA; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 56849111894     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2008.00847.x     Document Type: Article

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