Evolution of gabbroic rocks of the Northern Apennine ophiolites (Italy): Comparison with the lower oceanic crust from modern slow-spreading ridges

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 349, Issue , 2000, Pages 129-138

  Tribuzio, Riccardo ^a,b   Tiepolo, Massimo ^a   Vannucci, Riccardo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; IRON ALLOYS; IRON OXIDES; LIQUIDS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; MINERALS; PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); PILES; SOLVENTS; TITANIUM ALLOYS; TITANIUM OXIDES; TRACE ELEMENTS;

DIFFERENTIATION PROCESS; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; LITHOSPHERIC EXTENSION; LOW-PRESSURE CONDITIONS; MAJOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS; METAMORPHIC EVOLUTION; SLOW-SPREADING RIDGES; SOUTHWEST INDIAN RIDGE;

IGNEOUS ROCKS;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; GABBRO; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; OCEANIC CRUST; PERCOLATION; RECRYSTALLIZATION; SHEAR STRESS; TRACE ELEMENT; VOLCANIC ROCK;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN; MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE; SOUTHWEST INDIAN RIDGE;

EID: 84871023115     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2349-3.129     Document Type: Article

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