Garnet-bearing tonalitic porphyry from East Kunlun, Northeast Tibetan Plateau: Implications for adakite and magmas from the MASH Zone

International Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1489-1510

  Yuan, Chao ^a   Sun, Min ^b   Xiao, Wenjiao ^c   Wilde, Simon ^d   Li, Xianhua ^a   Liu, Xiaohan ^c   Long, Xiaoping ^a   Xia, Xiaoping ^b   Ye, Kai ^c   Li, Jiliang ^c  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adakite; Garnet; Kunlun; MASH Zone; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

ADAKITE; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; CRYSTALLIZATION; FUGACITY; GARNET; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MAGMATISM; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; PHENOCRYST; PORPHYRY; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SHRIMP DATING; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; TONALITE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; KUNLUN MOUNTAINS; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 69849088903     PISSN: 14373254     EISSN: 14373262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00531-008-0335-y     Document Type: Conference Paper

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