Anhydrous partial melting of an iron-rich mantle I: subsolidus phase assemblages and partial melting phase relations at 10 to 30 kbar

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 313-322

  Bertka, Constance M ^a,b   Holloway, John R ^b  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON RICH MANTLE; PARTIAL MELTING; PHASE RELATIONS; SPINEL LHERZOLITE; SUBSOLIDUS ASSEMBLAGE;

MARS, THARSIS PLATEAU;

EID: 0028193256     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: 14320967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00310770     Document Type: Article

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