Compositionally stratified lithosphere and carbonatite metasomatism recorded in mantle xenoliths from the Western Qinling (Central China)

Lithos

Volumn 116, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 111-128

  Su, Ben Xun ^a,b   Zhang, Hong Fu ^a   Sakyi, Patrick Asamoah ^c   Ying, Ji Feng ^a   Tang, Yan Jie ^a   Yang, Yue Heng ^a   Qin, Ke Zhang ^a   Xiao, Yan ^a   Zhao, Xin Miao ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Carbonatite metasomatism; Mantle peridotite; Stratified lithospheric mantle; Western Qinling

Indexed keywords

CARBONATITE; CLINOPYROXENE; HAFNIUM; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; METASOMATISM; OCEANIC CRUST; OROGENIC BELT; PERIDOTITE; PETROGENESIS; PETROLOGY; SUBDUCTION; TRACE ELEMENT; XENOLITH; ZIRCONIUM;

CHINA; NORTH CHINA BLOCK; PACIFIC OCEAN; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; QINLING MOUNTAINS; YANGTZE PLATFORM;

EID: 77949301883     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2010.01.004     Document Type: Article

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