Alpe Arami: A peridotite massif from depths of more than 300 kilometers

Science

Volumn 271, Issue 5257, 1996, Pages 1841-1845

  Dobrzhinetskaya, Larissa ^a   Green II, Harry W ^a   Wang, Su ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMITE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MANTLE XENOLITH; OLIVINE; PERIDOTITE; PEROVSKITE;

SWITZERLAND, ALPE ARAMI;

EID: 0029772188     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.271.5257.1841     Document Type: Article

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