The geochemical peculiarity of "Plio-Quaternary" volcanic rocks of Sardinia in the circum-Mediterranean area

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 418, Issue , 2007, Pages 277-301

  Lustrino, Michele ^a   Melluso, Leone ^b   Morra, Vincenzo ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Circum Mediterranean; Isotopes; Lithosphere; Lower crust; Sardinia

Indexed keywords

EXPLORATORY GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPES; RARE EARTHS; SILICA; VOLCANOES;

CIRCUM-MEDITERRANEAN; GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTIC; HEAVY RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; LITHOSPHERE; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; LOWER CRUST; MEDITERRANEAN AREAS; SARDINIA;

VOLCANIC ROCKS;

CENOZOIC; CONTINENTAL CRUST; DISCONTINUITY; IGNEOUS PROVINCE; LITHOSPHERE; LOWER CRUST; MANTLE; MANTLE SOURCE; ORTHOPYROXENE; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; VOLCANIC ROCK; VOLCANISM;

ITALY; SARDINIA;

TRACHYTES;

EID: 75749091896     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.2418(14)     Document Type: Conference Paper

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