Cumulate xenoliths in Oligocene alkaline basaltic and lamprophyric dikes from the eastern Rhodopes, Bulgaria: Evidence for the existence of layered plutons under the metamorphic core complexes

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 409, Issue , 2006, Pages 237-258

  Crust, Peter ^a   Arai, Shoji ^b   Vaselli, Orlando ^c  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Bulgaria)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Eastern Rhodopes; Metamorphic core complex; Ultramafic and mafic xenoliths; Underplating

Indexed keywords

LEVEES; SILICATE MINERALS;

EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; EASTERN RHODOPES; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX; THERMAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; THERMAL METAMORPHISM; ULTRAMAFIC AND MAFIC XENOLITHS; UNDERPLATING;

GOLD DEPOSITS;

DIKE; GABBRO; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; LAMPROPHYRE; LOWER CRUST; MAFIC ROCK; MAGMA; METAMORPHISM; OLIGOCENE; OLIVINE; PLUTON; PYROXENITE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; UNDERPLATING; XENOLITH;

BASIN AND RANGE PROVINCE; BULGARIA; RHODOPE MOUNTAINS;

EID: 73949089258     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2409(13)     Document Type: Article

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