The Variscan gabbros from the Spanish Central System: A case for crustal recycling in the sub-continental lithospheric mantle?

Lithos

Volumn 110, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 262-276

  Orejana, David ^a   Villaseca, Carlos ^a   Pérez Soba, Cecilia ^a   López García, José A ^b   Billström, Kjell ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE GEOCIENCIAS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Crustal recycling; Gabbroic rocks; Lithospheric mantle; Spanish Central System; Variscan orogeny

Indexed keywords

FRACTIONATION; GABBRO; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MAGMATISM; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 67349123087     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2009.01.003     Document Type: Article

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