Evolution of the lithospheric mantle beneath the East African Rift in Tanzania and its potential signatures in rift magmas

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 478, Issue , 2011, Pages 105-125

  Aulbach, Sonja ^a,b   Rudnick, Roberta L ^a   McDonough, William F ^a  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; ISOTOPES; MINERALS; RARE EARTHS; SILICA; SILICATES; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

EAST AFRICAN RIFT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; MANTLE LITHOSPHERE; PERIDOTITE XENOLITHS; SR AND ND ISOTOPES; UPPER CONTINENTAL CRUST;

NEODYMIUM ALLOYS;

CLINOPYROXENE; CONTINENTAL CRUST; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LITHOSPHERE; METASOMATISM; OVERPRINTING; PERIDOTITE; TRACE ELEMENT; XENOLITH;

EAST AFRICAN RIFT; TANZANIA;

EID: 80051860710     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2011.2478(06)     Document Type: Article

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