Similarities between mantle-derived A-type granites and voluminous rhyolites in continental flood basalt provinces

Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Volumn 100, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 51-60

  Turner, Simon ^a   Rushmer, Tracy ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

A type granite; continental flood basalts; fractionation; melting experiments; rhyolite

Indexed keywords

A-TYPE ROCK; BASAL MELTING; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; COUNTRY ROCK; CRUSTAL CONTAMINATION; FLOOD BASALT; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; GRANITE; PHANEROZOIC; RHYOLITE;

EID: 77957223196     PISSN: 17556910     EISSN: 17556929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1755691009016181     Document Type: Conference Paper

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