Geochemistry, petrology and tectonomagmatic significance of basaltic rocks from the ophiolite mélange at the NW External-Internal Dinarides junction (Croatia)

Geologica Carpathica

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 273-292

  Slovenec, Damir ^a   Lugović, Boško ^b   Vlahović, Irena ^c  

^a CROATIAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^c Biosistemi doo   (Croatia)

Author keywords

alkali within plate basalts; back arc spreading; Croatia; ophiolite m lange; proto arc extension; Samoborska Gora Mts; tholeiitic basalts; Triassic Jurassic

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; ALKALI BASALT; BASALT; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; CRYSTALLIZATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; INSELBERG; JURASSIC; MAGMATISM; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; OBDUCTION; OLISTOLITH; OPHIOLITE; PARAGENESIS; PETROLOGY; SUTURE ZONE; THOLEIITIC BASALT; TRIASSIC;

ALPS; CROATIA; DINARIC ALPS; EASTERN ALPS; HUNGARY; SLOVENIA; TRANSDANUBIA; ZAGORJE;

EID: 77956167484     PISSN: 13350552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10096-010-0016-1     Document Type: Article

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