Rapid incremental assembly of the Monte Capanne pluton (Elba Island, Tuscany) by downward stacking of magma sheets

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 9-10, 2010, Pages 1463-1479

  Farina, Federico ^a,b   Dini, Andrea ^c   Innocenti, Fabrizio ^a   Rocchi, Sergio ^a   Westerman, David S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d NORWICH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DIFFERENCES; CHEMICAL VARIABILITY; GEOCHEMICAL FEATURES; GEOLOGICAL MAP; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; K-FELDSPAR; LATE MIOCENE; MAGMA BATCHES; MEGACRYSTS; MINERAL CHEMISTRY; SHALLOW CRUST; TIME SEQUENCES; TUSCANY;

FELDSPAR; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MICA; MINERALS; SILICATE MINERALS; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION);

TRACE ELEMENTS;

EMPLACEMENT; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MAGMA CHEMISTRY; MEGACRYST; PLUTON; TRACE ELEMENT;

ELBA; ITALY; LIVORNO [TUSCANY]; MONTE CAPANNE; TUSCAN ARCHIPELAGO; TUSCANY;

EID: 77955036688     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30112.1     Document Type: Article

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