Silicic magmas from the Emeishan large igneous province, Southwest China: Petrogenesis and their link with the end-Guadalupian biological crisis

Lithos

Volumn 119, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 47-60

  Xu, Yi Gang ^a   Chung, Sun Lin ^b   Shao, Hui ^a   He, Bin ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Crustal melting; Daly gap; Emeishan large igneous province; End Guadalupian mass extinction; Fractionation; Silicic magmatism

Indexed keywords

BASALT; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; GUADALUPIAN; LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCE; MAGMA; MAGMATISM; PETROGENESIS; RHYOLITE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANISM;

CHINA; EMEISHAN; SICHUAN;

TRACHYTES;

EID: 77956461154     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2010.04.013     Document Type: Article

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