Beginning of the Apennine subduction system in central western Mediterranean: Constraints from Cenozoic "orogenic" magmatic activity of Sardinia, Italy

Tectonics

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Lustrino, Michele ^a   Morra, Vincenzo ^b   Fedele, Lorenzo ^b   Franciosi, Luigi ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; SILICATE MINERALS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

CENOZOIC; GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTIC; IGNEOUS ACTIVITY; LATE EOCENE; MAGMATIC ACTIVITY; MAJOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS; MANTLE WEDGE; MIDDLE MIOCENE; MIOCENE; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; SARDINIA; SPINEL-LHERZOLITE; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN BASIN;

VOLCANIC ROCKS;

CENOZOIC; FELDSPAR; IGNEOUS ROCK; METASOMATISM; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRACE ELEMENT; VOLCANIC ROCK;

APENNINES; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (WEST); SARDINIA;

EID: 77951742436     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008TC002419     Document Type: Article

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