Peralkaline granitoid magmatism in the Mongolian-Transbaikalian Belt: Evolution, petrogenesis and tectonic significance

Lithos

Volumn 113, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 521-539

  Jahn, B M ^a   Litvinovsky, B A ^b   Zanvilevich, A N ^b   Reichow, M ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CAOB (Central Asian Orogenic Belt); Juvenile continental crust; Mongolia and Transbaikalia; Peralkaline granite; Petrogenesis; Sr Nd isotopes; Syenite

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL CRUST; EMPLACEMENT; GRANITOID; MAGMATISM; MESOZOIC; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; OROGENIC BELT; PERALKALINE ROCK; PERMIAN; PETROGENESIS; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; SYENITE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING;

EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; TRANSBAIKALIA;

EID: 70449118982     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2009.06.015     Document Type: Article

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