New tectonic discrimination diagrams for basic and ultrabasic volcanic rocks through log-transformed ratios of high field strength elements and implications for petrogenetic processes

Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geologicas

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 24-44

  Verma, Surendra P ^a   Agrawal, Salil ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE ENERGÍAS RENOVABLES   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RAJASTHAN   (India)

Author keywords

Adjusted majorelements; Archean; Discordant outliers; Log transformation; Normal sample; Ophiolites; Sweden; Tectonic setting; Turkey

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955924790     PISSN: 10268774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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