The roles of flux- and decompression melting and their respective fractionation lines for continental crust formation: Evidence from the Kohistan arc

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 303, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 25-36

  Jagoutz, Oliver ^a   Müntener, Othmar ^b   Schmidt, Max W ^c   Burg, Jean Pierre ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Continental crust formation; Fractionation; Liquid lines of descent; Subduction zones

Indexed keywords

CLINOPYROXENES; COMPOSITE MODELS; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; CRUSTAL ROCKS; ENDMEMBERS; FORMING MECHANISM; GEOLOGICAL TIMESCALES; LOWER CRUST; MANTLE MELT; MANTLE MELTING; ORTHOPYROXENE; PAKISTAN; SUBDUCTION ZONES; UPPER CRUST;

BUOYANCY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; FELDSPAR; GARNETS; IGNEOUS ROCKS; LIQUIDS; MELTING; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; OLIVINE; ROCKS; SILICA;

SILICATE MINERALS;

CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DECOMPRESSION; DELAMINATION; FRACTIONATION; GABBRO; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MELTING; MINERALOGY; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

KOHISTAN;

EID: 79951813374     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.12.017     Document Type: Article

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