Highly depleted oceanic lithosphere in the Rheic Ocean: Implications for Paleozoic plate reconstructions

Lithos

Volumn 123, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 165-175

  Murphy, J Brendan ^a   Cousens, Brian L ^b   Braid, James A ^a   Strachan, Rob A ^c   Dostal, Jaroslav ^d   Keppie, J Duncan ^e   Nance, R Damian ^f  

^a ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^d SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^f OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Depleted mantle; Ophiolite; Rheic Ocean; Sm Nd isotopes

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS; CARIBBEAN PLATE; GONDWANA; LAURENTIA; MAFIC ROCK; MANTLE STRUCTURE; NEODYMIUM; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; OPHIOLITE; PALEOZOIC; SAMARIUM; SUBDUCTION; TERRANE;

EID: 79952069426     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2010.09.014     Document Type: Article

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