The upper mantle under La Palma, Canary Islands: Formation of Si - K - Na-rich melt and its importance as a metasomatic agent

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 125, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 113-139

  Wulff Pedersen, Erik ^a   Neumann, Else Ragnhild ^a   Jensen, Brenda B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METASOMATISM; PETROGENESIS; PETROLOGY; UPPER MANTLE; XENOLITH;

CANARY ISLANDS, LA PALMA;

EID: 0030377495     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004100050210     Document Type: Article

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