Carbonatites are familiar to students of petrology as rare igneous rocks formed
predominantly of carbonate, whose only modern expression is a single active volcano that …

Abstract The Bayan Obo deposit in Inner Mongolia, North China Craton (NCC) is the largest
rare-earth element (REE) resource in the world. Due to the complex element and mineral …

There is increasing evidence that many carbonatites are linked both spatially and temporally
with large igneous provinces (LIPs), ie high volume, short duration, intraplate-type …

The restriction of most carbonatites to continental areas raises questions as to whether the
parental liquids to carbonatites are generated within the continental lithosphere, or whether …

Abstract The Kohistan-Ladakh block occupies the northwestern corner of the Himalayan
mountains and has long been recognized to represent an island arc constructed on ocean …

The rare earth elements are unusual when defining giant-sized ore deposits, as resources
are often quoted as total rare earth oxide, but the importance of a deposit may be related to …

Major and trace element and Nd–Sr isotope data of the Mesozoic Laiwu–Zibo carbonatites
(LZCs) from western Shandong Province, China, provide clues to the petrogenesis and the …

Three large dike systems are exposed in the Deccan Traps flood basalt province of India:
the dominantly north–south-trending west coast swarm, the east–west-trending Narmada …

Thermal ionization mass spectrometry (TIMS) is considered the most accurate technique for
determining Sr–Nd–Pb isotopic ratios in geological samples. However, time-consuming and …