Petrogenetic relationships between peralkaline rhyolite dykes and mafic rocks in the post-Variscan gabbroic complex from Bocca di Tenda (northern Corsica, France)

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 165, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1073-1085

  Renna, Maria Rosaria ^a   Tribuzio, Riccardo ^b,c   Braga, Roberto ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Corsica batholith; Gabbroic sequence; Nd isotope; Peralkaline melts; Post Variscan evolution

Indexed keywords

ANDESITE; BASALT; BATHOLITH; DIKE; DIORITE; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; GABBRO; ILMENITE; MAFIC ROCK; MICA; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; OLIVINE; PERALKALINE ROCK; PETROGENESIS; PLAGIOCLASE; QUARTZ; RHYOLITE; TONALITE; TRACE ELEMENT;

CORSE; FRANCE;

EID: 84877827800     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-012-0848-z     Document Type: Article

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