Melting of enriched Archean subcontinental lithospheric mantle: Evidence from the ca 1760Ma volcanic rocks of the Xiong'er Group, southern margin of the North China Craton

Precambrian Research

Volumn 182, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 204-216

  Wang, Xiao Lei ^a,b   Jiang, Shao Yong ^a   Dai, Bao Zhang ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Extension; Lithospheric mantle; North China Craton; Petrogenesis; Volcanic rocks

Indexed keywords

FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE SOURCE; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; PARTIAL MELTING; PETROGENESIS; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; TRACE ELEMENT; VOLCANIC ROCK;

CHINA; NORTH CHINA BLOCK;

EID: 77957282998     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2010.08.007     Document Type: Article

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