Mantle xenoliths from Tallante (Betic Cordillera): Insights into the multi-stage evolution of the south Iberian lithosphere

Lithos

Volumn 124, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 308-318

  Bianchini, Gianluca ^a,b   Beccaluva, Luigi ^b   Nowell, Geoff M ^c   Pearson, D Graham ^c,d   Siena, Franca ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Betic Cordillera; Lithosphere refertilization; Mantle xenoliths; Metasomatism

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL CRUST; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LHERZOLITE; MANTLE; MESOZOIC; METASOMATISM; NEOGENE; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; OROGENY; RIFTING; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; XENOLITH;

BETIC CORDILLERA; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SPAIN;

EID: 79955845153     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2010.12.004     Document Type: Article

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