Garnet Granulite Xenoliths from the Northern Baltic Shield--the Underplated Lower Crust of a Palaeoproterozoic Large Igneous Province?

• Published in: Journal of Petrology
• Main Authors: KEMPTON, P. D., DOWNES, H., NEYMARK, L. A., WARTHO, J. A., ZARTMAN, R. E., SHARKOV, E. V.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2001
• Subjects: ARTICLES; Gar’; Kola Peninsula; kola peninsula
• Online Access: http://petrology.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/42/4/731; https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/42.4.731

Garnet granulite facies xenoliths hosted in Devonian lamprophyres from the Kola Peninsula are interpreted to represent the high-grade metamorphic equivalents of continental flood tholeiites, emplaced into the Baltic Shield Archaean lower crust in early Proterozoic time. Geochronological data and sim...