Slab break-off and the formation of Permian mafic-ultramafic intrusions in southern margin of Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Xinjiang, NW China

Lithos

Volumn 127, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 128-143

  Song, Xie Yan ^a   Xie, Wei ^a,d   Deng, Yu Feng ^a   Crawford, Anthony J ^b   Zheng, Wen Qin ^a   Zhou, Guo Fu ^a   Deng, Gang ^c   Cheng, Song Lin ^c   Li, Jun ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c Sixth Geological Unit   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Central Asian Orogenic Belt; Mafic ultramafic intrusion; NW China; Permian; Slab break off

Indexed keywords

ASTHENOSPHERE; EMPLACEMENT; FORMATION MECHANISM; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MAFIC ROCK; MANTLE STRUCTURE; OROGENIC BELT; PARENT BODY; PERMIAN; SLAB; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK;

CHINA; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 80053632183     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2011.08.011     Document Type: Article

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