Geochemical systematics of basalts of the Lower Basalt Unit, 2.7 Ga Kambalda Sequence, Yilgarn craton, Australia: Plume impingement at a rifted craton margin

Lithos

Volumn 115, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 82-100

  Said, Nuru ^a   Kerrich, Robert ^b   Groves, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cratonic lithospheric mantle; Eastern Goldfields Superterrane; Geochemistry; Kambalda Sequence; Mantle plume

Indexed keywords

CRATON; CRUSTAL CONTAMINATION; GARNET; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; KOMATIITE; LAVA FLOW; MAGMA ASSIMILATION; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; MANTLE PLUME; MANTLE SOURCE; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; THOLEIITE;

AUSTRALIA; EASTERN GOLDFIELDS; KALGOORLIE TERRANE; KAMBALDA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; YILGARN BLOCK;

EID: 76349086897     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2009.11.008     Document Type: Article

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