Compositional convection caused by olivine crystallization in a synthetic basalt melt

Mineralogical Magazine

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 115-130

  Seedhouse, Jon K ^a,b   Donaldson, Colin H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b Gas Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Basalt melt; Convection; Magma chambers; Olivine

Indexed keywords

BASALT; CONVECTION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MAGMA CHAMBER; OLIVINE; SYNTHETIC MELT;

EID: 0029753674     PISSN: 0026461X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1180/minmag.1996.060.398.08     Document Type: Article

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