Lower crust processes during the lithosphere thinning in eastern China: Magma underplating, replacement and delamination

Acta Petrologica Sinica

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1509-1526

  Zhai, MingGuo ^a   Fan, QiCheng ^b   Zhang, HongFu ^a,c   Sui, JianLi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^c State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution   (China)

Author keywords

Lithospheric thinning; Lower crust; North China

Indexed keywords

DELAMINATION; GARNETS; GEOCHEMISTRY; MELTING; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

DYNAMIC MECHANISM; GARNET PYROXENITE; LITHOSPHERE MANTLE; LITHOSPHERE THINNING; LITHOSPHERIC THINNING; LOWER CRUST; NORTH CHINA; NORTH CHINA BLOCKS;

TECTONICS;

CRUSTAL THINNING; DELAMINATION; MAGMA; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; METAMORPHISM; OROGENY; REPLACEMENT; UNDERPLATING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 84977998271     PISSN: 10000569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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