Petrogenesis of Early Permian olivine-bearing cumulates and associated basalt dykes from Bocca di Tenda (Northern Corsica): Implications for post-collisional Variscan evolution

Chemical Geology

Volumn 259, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 190-203

  Tribuzio, Riccardo ^a,b   Renna, Maria Rosaria ^a   Braga, Roberto ^c   Dallai, Luigi ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clinopyroxene trace element compositions; Corsica batholith; Crustal contamination; Early Permian basic magmatism; Mafic cumulates; Post collisional Variscan evolution

Indexed keywords

BATHOLITH; CRUSTAL CONTAMINATION; CUMULATE; DIKE; ENRICHMENT; GABBRO; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MAGMATISM; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; OLIVINE; PERMIAN; PETROGENESIS;

CORSE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 59449092102     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2008.10.045     Document Type: Article

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