Two tales of the continental lithospheric mantle prior to the destruction of the North China Craton: Insights from Early Cretaceous mafic intrusions in western Shandong, East China

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 96, Issue , 2012, Pages 193-214

  Huang, Xiao Long ^a   Zhong, Jun Wei ^a,b   Xu, Yi Gang ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL THINNING; DELAMINATION; GABBRO; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; MAFIC ROCK; MAGMATISM; MANTLE PROCESS;

CHINA; NORTH CHINA BLOCK; SHANDONG;

EID: 84866650033     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2012.08.014     Document Type: Article

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