Incipient boninitic arc crust built on denudated mantle: the Khantaishir ophiolite (western Mongolia)
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DOI: 10.1007/s00410-017-1415-4
Abstract: The ~ 570 Ma old Khantaishir ophiolite is built by up to 4 km harzburgitic mantle with abundant pyroxenites and dunites followed by ~ 2 km of hornblende-gabbros and gabbronorites and by a ~ 2.5 km thick volcanic unit composed of a dyke + sill complex capped… read more here.
Keywords: crust; arc crust; khantaishir; denudated mantle ... See more keywords