A slab detachment and delamination model for the generation of Carboniferous high-potassium I-type magmatism in the Eastern Pontides, NE Turkey: The Köse composite pluton

Gondwana Research

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 926-944

  Dokuz, Abdurrahman ^a  

^a KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Delamination; Eastern Pontides; Hercynian granitoid; Mixing; Slab detachment

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS; DELAMINATION; DETACHMENT FAULT; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; I-TYPE ROCK; MAGMA; MAGMATISM; PLUTON; POTASSIUM; SLAB;

PONTIDES; TURKEY;

EID: 79954629527     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2010.09.006     Document Type: Article

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