Timing, relations and cause of plutonic and volcanic activity of the Siluro-Devonian post-collision magmatic episode in the Grampian Terrane, Scotland

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 166, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 545-561

  Neilson, J C ^a,b   Kokelaar, B P ^a   Crowley, Q G ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^d TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTHENOSPHERE; AVALONIA; CALC ALKALINE ROCK; DEVONIAN; LAURENTIA; MAGMATISM; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PARTIAL MELTING; PLUTON; UPLIFT; VOLCANIC ROCK;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GRAMPIAN; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 69949089075     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492008-069     Document Type: Article

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