The Plio-Quaternary magmatic feeding system beneath Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain): Constraints from thermobarometric studies

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 167, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 785-801

  Aulinas, M ^a   Gimeno, D ^a   Fernandez Turiel, J L ^b   Perez Torrado, F J ^c   Rodriguez Gonzalez, A ^c   Gasperini, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROMETRY; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLINOPYROXENE; CRYSTALLIZATION; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; MAGMA CHEMISTRY; MAGMATIC DIFFERENTIATION; MAGMATISM; MINERAL PROPERTY; P-T CONDITIONS; PETROGRAPHY; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; QUATERNARY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THERMOMECHANICS; UPLIFT; VOLCANISM;

CANARY ISLANDS; GRAN CANARIA; LAS PALMAS; SPAIN;

EID: 77954272453     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492009-184     Document Type: Article

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