Coexistence of the moderately refractory and fertile mantle beneath the eastern Central Asian Orogenic Belt

Gondwana Research

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 176-189

  Pan, Shaokui ^a   Zheng, Jianping ^a   Chu, Linlin ^a   Griffin, W L ^b  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Lithospheric mantle; Peridotite xenoliths; The Central Asian Orogenic Belt

Indexed keywords

BASALT; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; METASOMATISM; OROGENIC BELT; PERIDOTITE; SPINEL; XENOLITH;

CENTRAL ASIA;

EID: 84869871187     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2012.03.001     Document Type: Article

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