Magnesian dyke suites of the 2.7 Ga Kambalda Sequence, Western Australia: Evidence for coeval melting of plume asthenosphere and metasomatised lithospheric mantle

Precambrian Research

Volumn 180, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 183-203

  Said, Nuru ^a   Kerrich, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Geochemistry; Kambalda Sequence; Magnesian dyke suites; Mantle plume; Metasomatised mantle lithosphere; Woolyeneer basalt Formation

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CRUSTAL CONTAMINATION; DIKE; GEODYNAMICS; KOMATIITE; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; MANTLE PLUME; MANTLE SOURCE; MELTING; METASOMATISM; OCEAN ISLAND BASALT; RIFTING; SUBDUCTION ZONE; THOLEIITIC BASALT;

AUSTRALIA; KALGOORLIE TERRANE; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; YILGARN BLOCK;

EID: 77953683196     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2010.04.003     Document Type: Article

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