An experimentally based model for the origin of tonalitic and trondhjemitic melts

Chemical Geology

Volumn 127, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 43-59

  Winther, K Tobias ^a,b  

^a Research Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELTING EXPERIMENT; P/T CONDITIONS; PARTIAL MELTING; TONALITE; TRONDHJEMITE;

EID: 0029752017     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0009-2541(95)00087-9     Document Type: Article

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