Experimental reconstruction of sodic dolomitic carbonatite melts from metasomatised lithosphere

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 124, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 359-369

  Yaxley, Gregory M ^a   Green, David H ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONATITE; DECARBONATION; LITHOSPHERE; METASOMATISM; SODIC DOLOMITE MELT; WEHRLITE;

EID: 0030392335     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004100050196     Document Type: Article

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