Composition and Cretaceous thermal structure of the upper mantle beneath the Damara Mobile Belt: Evidence from nephelinite-hosted peridotite xenoliths, Swakopmund, Namibia

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 159, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 307-321

  Whitehead, Kerryn ^a   Le Roex, Anton ^a   Class, Cornella ^a   Bell, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cretaceous; Mantle; Namibia; Peridotite; Xenoliths

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CRETACEOUS; PERIDOTITE; THERMAL STRUCTURE; UPPER MANTLE; XENOLITH;

NAMIBIA;

EID: 84862762131     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-764901-113     Document Type: Article

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