Interactions between melt and upper-mantle peridotites in the North Arm Mountain massif, Bay of Islands ophiolite, Newfoundland, Canada: Implications for the genesis of boninitic and related magmas

Chemical Geology

Volumn 129, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 71-90

  Varfalvy, Veronika ^a   Hébert, Réjean ^a   Bédard, Jean H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONINITE; GEOCHEMISTRY; MANTLE (UPPER); OPHIOLITE; PERIDOTITE; PETROGENESIS; ROCK/MELT INTERACTION;

CANADA, NEWFOUNDLAND, BAY OF ISLANDS;

EID: 0029750505     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0009-2541(95)00140-9     Document Type: Article

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