Tectonic implications of garnet-bearing mantle xenoliths exhumed by Quaternary magmatism in the Hangay dome, central Mongolia

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 67-81

  Harris, Nigel ^a   Hunt, Alison ^a   Parkinson, Ian ^a   Tindle, Andrew ^a   Yondon, Magisuren ^b   Hammond, Samantha ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MONGOLIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Mongolia)

Author keywords

Intra plate volcanism; Mongolian tectonics; Thermobarometry; Xenoliths

Indexed keywords

ALKALI BASALT; EXHUMATION; GARNET; HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; LHERZOLITE; MAGMATISM; MANTLE PLUME; PLEISTOCENE; QUATERNARY; VOLCANISM; XENOLITH;

BAIKAL RIFT ZONE; MONGOLIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 77953479959     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-009-0466-6     Document Type: Article

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