Carboniferous high-potassium I-type granitoid magmatism in the Eastern Pontides: The Gümüşhane pluton (NE Turkey)

Lithos

Volumn 116, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 92-110

  Topuz, Gültekin ^a   Altherr, Rainer ^b   Siebel, Wolfgang ^c   Schwarz, Winfried H ^b   Zack, Thomas ^d   Hasözbek, Altuǧ ^c   Barth, Mathias ^d   Satir, Muharrem ^c   Şen, Cüneyt ^e  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Ar Ar dating; Eastern Pontides Turkey; High K granite; Sr Nd isotopy; U Pb zircon dating; Variscan orogeny

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; BIOTITE; CARBONIFEROUS; CRYSTALLIZATION; EMPLACEMENT; GRANITOID; GRANODIORITE; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; HORNBLENDE; I-TYPE ROCK; MAGMATISM; METAMORPHISM; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; PLUTON; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

PONTIDES; TURKEY;

EID: 77949318167     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2010.01.003     Document Type: Article

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