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      Nature of Lower Crust and Crust-mantle Exchange
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      Nature of Lower Crust and Crust-mantle Exchange

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      Nature of Lower Crust and Crust-mantle Exchange book

      ByDeng Jinfu, Wu Zongxu, Zhao Hailing, Luo Zhaohua, Cao Yonyqing
      BookProceedings of the 30th International Geological Congress Beijing, China, 4–14 August 1996

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      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 1997
      Imprint CRC Press
      Pages 10
      eBook ISBN 9781003079545
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      ABSTRACT

      Based on the petrological approach in combination with geophysical model and experimental or calculated data of Vp & Vs for the rocks, the crust-mantle petrological structure of three geotectonic units of china are presented by this paper. From oceanic crust through continental collision belt, with rapid increasing crust thickness, the mineral facies of the lower crust is changed from normal igneous or green-schist facies through amphibolite and granulite facies to eclogite facies, in correspondence with which the composition is changed from basaltic through andesitic to granitic, the compositional trend is called “granitizaiion” resulted from the basaltic eclogite crust recycling back into the mantle. However, from the continental collision belt to the craton or through continental rifting to the oceanic crust, the crust thickness, mineral facies and composition of the lower crust are developed oppsitely, the compositional trend is called “basification” generated by the basaltic magma underplating into the lower crust from the mantle.

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