Geochemistry of anorthositic differentiated sills in the Archean (~2970Ma) Fiskenæsset Complex, SW Greenland: Implications for parental magma compositions, geodynamic setting, and secular heat flow in arcs

Lithos

Volumn 123, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 50-72

  Polat, Ali ^a   Fryer, Brian J ^a,b   Appel, Peter W U ^c   Kalvig, Per ^c   Kerrich, Robert ^d   Dilek, Yildirim ^e   Yang, Zhaoping ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^e MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anorthosite; Archean; Fisken sset Complex; Magma differentiation; Trace element

Indexed keywords

ANORTHOSITE; ARCHEAN; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; GEODYNAMICS; HEAT FLOW; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; MAGMATIC DIFFERENTIATION; MAGMATISM; MANTLE SOURCE; PARENT BODY; SILL; TRACE ELEMENT;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 79952536295     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2010.12.003     Document Type: Article

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