Probing the basement of southern Tibet: evidence from crustal xenoliths entrained in a Miocene ultrapotassic dyke

A variety of felsic and mafic granulites and ultramafic rocks occur as xenoliths within a 12.7 Ma ultrapotassic dyke intruding Xigaze flysch immediately to the north of the Yarlung-Tsangpo suture zone in southern Tibet. Garnet-clinopyroxene-plagioclase-quartz thermobarometry on mafic granulite xenol...

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Main Authors: Chan, G, Waters, D, Searle, M, Aitchison, J, Horstwood, M, Crowley, Q, Lo, C, Chan, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2009