Natural and experimental constraints on formation of the continental crust based on niobium-tantalum fractionation

International Geology Review

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 473-501

  Ding, Xing ^a,b   Lundstrom, Craig ^c   Huang, Fang ^c   Li, Jie ^d   Zhang, Zeming ^e   Sun, Xiaoming ^a   Liang, Jinlong ^f   Sun, Weidong ^a,f  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^e SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Contineutal crust; Fluids; High pressure experiment; Nb Ta fractionation; Rutile; Subduction; Thermal gradient

Indexed keywords

CHINESE CONTINENTAL SCIENTIFIC DRILLING PROJECT; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; ECLOGITE; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NIOBIUM; PARTIAL MELTING; RUTILE; SUBDUCTION; TANTALUM; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THERMAL STRUCTURE; TITANIUM; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM;

EID: 69149101164     PISSN: 00206814     EISSN: 19382839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00206810902759749     Document Type: Article

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