Slab-mantle interaction for thinning of cratonic lithospheric mantle in North China: Geochemical evidence from Cenozoic continental basalts in central Shandong

Lithos

Volumn 146-147, Issue , 2012, Pages 202-217

  Xu, Zheng ^a   Zhao, Zi Fu ^a   Zheng, Yong Fei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Continental basalt; Craton destruction; Melt peridotite reaction; Oceanic subduction; Slab mantle interaction

Indexed keywords

BASALT; BASANITE; CENOZOIC; CRATON; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LITHOLOGY; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; OLIVINE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PACIFIC PLATE; PARTIAL MELTING; PHENOCRYST; PLAGIOCLASE; SLAB; SUBDUCTION; TRACE ELEMENT;

CHINA; NORTH CHINA BLOCK; SHANDONG;

EID: 84862130254     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2012.05.019     Document Type: Article

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