Crustal evolution along the Early Ordovician proto-Andean margin of Gondwana: Trace element and isotope evidence from the Complejo Igneo Pocitos (Northwest Argentina)

Journal of Geology

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 503-520

  Kleine, Thorsten ^a   Mezger, Klaus ^a   Zimmermann, Udo ^a,b   Münker, Carsten ^a   Bahlburg, Heinrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL ARC; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; GONDWANA; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ORDOVICIAN; OROGENY; TRACE ELEMENT;

ARGENTINA; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 6344249085     PISSN: 00221376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/422663     Document Type: Article

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