Slab-derived lithium isotopic signatures in mantle xenoliths from northeastern North China Craton

Lithos

Volumn 149, Issue , 2012, Pages 79-90

  Tang, Yan Jie ^a   Zhang, Hong Fu ^a,b   Deloule, Etienne ^c   Su, Ben Xun ^a   Ying, Ji Feng ^a   Xiao, Yan ^a   Hu, Yan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Li isotope; Lithospheric mantle; Metasomatism; North China Craton; Xenolith

Indexed keywords

CLINOPYROXENE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HARZBURGITE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LHERZOLITE; LITHIUM; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; METASOMATISM; OLIVINE; ORTHOPYROXENE; PARTITIONING; XENOLITH;

CHINA; NORTH CHINA BLOCK;

EID: 84865192812     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2011.12.001     Document Type: Article

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