Relative contributions of crust and mantle to generation of Campanian high-K calc-alkaline I-type granitoids in a subduction setting, with special reference to the Harşit Pluton, Eastern Turkey

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 160, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 467-487

  Karsli, Orhan ^a   Dokuz, Abdurrahman ^a   Uysal, Ibrahim ^b   Aydin, Faruk ^c   Chen, Bin ^d   Kandemir, Raif ^a   Wijbrans, Jan ^e  

^a GUMUSHANE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c NIGDE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Back arc extension; Eastern Turkey; High K calc alkaline granitoids; Lower crustal melting; Radiogenic isotopes; Subduction setting

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE ROCK; BACKARC BASIN; CAMPANIAN; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; GEODYNAMICS; GRANITOID; I-TYPE ROCK; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LOWER CRUST; MANTLE STRUCTURE; PLUTON; RADIONUCLIDE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

TURKEY;

EID: 77956401569     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-010-0489-z     Document Type: Article

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