Contrasting mantle sequences exposed in the Lewis Hills massif: Evidence for the early, arc-related history of the Bay of Islands ophiolite

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 349, Issue , 2000, Pages 433-442

  Suhr, Günter ^a,c   Edwards, Stephen John ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPLORATORY GEOCHEMISTRY; IGNEOUS ROCKS; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; RARE EARTHS;

CALCIC AMPHIBOLE; CHROMATOGRAPHIC EFFECTS; CLINOPYROXENES; FLUID MIGRATION; HEAVY RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; MANTLE UPWELLINGS; ORTHOPYROXENE; ULTRAMAFIC BODY;

MELTING;

BACKARC BASIN; CHROMIUM; FOREARC BASIN; FRACTURE ZONE; GEOCHEMICAL SURVEY; MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; OCEANIC CRUST; PETROLOGY; RECRYSTALLIZATION;

BAY OF ISLANDS [NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR]; CANADA; LEWIS HILLS; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR;

EID: 84870976361     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2349-3.433     Document Type: Article

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