Structure and evolution of the lithospheric mantle beneath Siberian craton, thermobarometric study

Tectonophysics

Volumn 485, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 17-41

  Ashchepkov, Igor V ^a   Pokhilenko, Nikolai P ^a   Vladykin, Nikolai V ^b   Logvinova, Alla M ^a   Afanasiev, Valentin P ^a   Pokhilenko, Lyudmila N ^a   Kuligin, Sergei S ^a   Malygina, Elena V ^a   Alymova, Natalia A ^a   Kostrovitsky, Sergey I ^b   Rotman, Anatolii Y ^c   Mityukhin, Sergey I ^c   Karpenko, Mikhail A ^c   Stegnitsky, Yuri B ^c   Khemelnikova, Olga S ^a  

^a SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^c Central Science and Research Geology and Prospecting Institute of the Stock Company ALROSA   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Kimberlite; Mantle; Mir; Monomineral thermobarometry; Udachnaya; Yakutia

Indexed keywords

CLINOPYROXENES; ECLOGITES; EMP ANALYSIS; FORMING SYSTEMS; GEOTHERMS; HEAVY MINERALS; KIMBERLITE PIPES; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; LOW TEMPERATURES; MESOZOIC; ORTHOPYROXENE; P-T PATH; PALEOZOIC; PERMIAN; SUB-CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERIC MANTLES; THERMOBAROMETRY; TRIASSIC; UDACHNAYA PIPE; YAKUTIA;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; BOND (MASONRY); CALCIUM; CHROMIUM; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; IGNEOUS ROCKS; ILMENITE; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; OXIDE MINERALS; PIPE; SILICATE MINERALS; TEMPERATURE SENSORS; THERMOMETERS;

GARNETS;

CHROMITE; GARNET; GEOBAROMETRY; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENT; GEOTHERMOMETRY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; ILMENITE; KIMBERLITE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MESOZOIC; METASOMATISM; ORTHOPYROXENE; P-T CONDITIONS; P-T-T PATH; PALEOZOIC; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHA; SIBERIAN CRATON;

EID: 77950595958     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.11.013     Document Type: Article

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