Petrogenesis and Nd-, Pb-, Sr-isotope geochemistry of the Cenozoic olivine melilitites and olivine nephelinites ("ankaratrites") in Madagascar

Lithos

Volumn 127, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 505-521

  Melluso, Leone ^a   le Roex, Anton P ^b   Morra, Vincenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Alaotra; Madagascar; Olivine melilitite; Olivine nephelinite; Takarindoha; Vatomandry

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LEAD ISOTOPE; MANTLE SOURCE; MELILITITE; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; NEPHELINITE; OLIVINE; PARTIAL MELTING; PETROGENESIS; RIFTING; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; XENOLITH;

MADAGASCAR;

EID: 80155125079     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2011.08.003     Document Type: Article

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