The Fiskenaesset Anorthosite Complex: Stable isotope evidence for shallow emplacement into Archean ocean crust

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 523-526

  Peck, William H ^a   Valley, John W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAY ALTERATION; ROCKS; SILICATE MINERALS; GEOCHEMISTRY; HYDROGEN; ISOTOPES; OXYGEN;

GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTIC; GRANULITE FACIES; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATIONS; ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES; LARGE AMOUNTS; OXYGEN AND HYDROGEN ISOTOPES; REGIONAL METAMORPHISMS; STABLE ISOTOPES; ANORTHOSITE INTRUSION; ARCHEAN OCEAN CRUSTS; CONTACT ROCKS; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; ISOTOPE RATIOS; KORNERUPINE; SAPPHIRINE; SHALLOW EMPLACEMENT;

ISOTOPES; GEOLOGY;

ANORTHOSITE; ARCHEAN; EMPLACEMENT; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; METAMORPHISM; OCEANIC CRUST; STABLE ISOTOPE; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; REGIONAL METAMORPHISM; SHALLOW SOIL; ARCHAEAN; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; FISKENAESSET;

EID: 84874994613     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0523:TFACSI>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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