Cordierite-bearing lavas from Jaguarão, southern Brazil: Petrological evidence for crustal melts during early rifting of Gondwana

Gondwana Research

Volumn 18, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 514-527

  Comin Chiaramonti, Piero ^a   Riccomini, Claudio ^b   Slejko, Francesca ^a   De Min, Angelo ^a   Ruberti, Excelso ^b   Gomes, Celso B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Cordierite; Dacites; Early Cretaceous; Gondwana break up; Jaguar o

Indexed keywords

BASEMENT ROCK; CORDIERITE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THINNING; GONDWANA; LAVA; MAGMA; PETROLOGY; RIFTING;

BRAZIL;

EID: 77954954057     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2009.12.007     Document Type: Article

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