Mesozoic accretion of juvenile sub-continental lithospheric mantle beneath South China and its implications: Geochemical and Re-Os isotopic results from Ningyuan mantle xenoliths

Chemical Geology

Volumn 291, Issue , 2012, Pages 186-198

  Liu, Chuan Zhou ^a   Liu, Zhi Chao ^a   Wu, Fu Yuan ^a   Chu, Zhu Yin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Highly siderophile elements; Mantle accretion; Mantle xenoliths; Mesozoic magmatism; Re Os isotopes; South China

Indexed keywords

HIGHLY SIDEROPHILE ELEMENTS; MANTLE ACCRETION; MANTLE XENOLITHS; MESOZOIC; SOUTH CHINA;

ALUMINUM; CHROMIUM; GALLIUM; ISOTOPES; MELTING; MINERALOGY; OSMIUM; PALLADIUM; PLATINUM; RHENIUM; SILICATE MINERALS; SODIUM; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; YTTERBIUM;

IGNEOUS ROCKS;

ACCRETION; ALKALI BASALT; CLINOPYROXENE; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GEOTHERMOMETRY; HARZBURGITE; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LHERZOLITE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MAGMATISM; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MESOZOIC; OSMIUM ISOTOPE; PARTIAL MELTING; PLATE BOUNDARY; RHENIUM; SIDEROPHILE ELEMENT; SUBDUCTION ZONE; XENOLITH;

CHINA; HUNAN;

EID: 84855434668     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2011.10.006     Document Type: Article

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