Fingerprinting sources of orogenic plutonic rocks from Variscan belt with lithium isotopes and possible link to subduction-related origin of some A-type granites

Chemical Geology

Volumn 274, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 94-107

  Magna, T ^a,b,c   Janousek V ^c,d   Kohut M ^e   Oberli, F ^f   Wiechert, U ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c CZECH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Czech Republic)

^d CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^e Dionyz Stur State Institute of Geology   (Slovakia)

^f ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^g FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

A type granite; Granitic typology; Lithium isotopes; Lower crust; Neodymium isotopes; Subduction; Western Carpathians

Indexed keywords

A-TYPE ROCK; CALC ALKALINE ROCK; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; GRANITE; I-TYPE ROCK; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LITHIUM; LOWER CRUST; MAFIC ROCK; MAGMA; METAIGNEOUS ROCK; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; PETROLOGY; PLUTONIC ROCK; SUBDUCTION;

CARPATHIANS; WESTERN CARPATHIANS;

EID: 77953293847     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2010.03.020     Document Type: Article

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