A possible role for garnet pyroxenite in the origin of the "garnet signature" in MORB

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 185-208

  Hirschmann, Marc M ^a,b   Stolper, Edward M ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GARNET; MANTLE SOURCE; MELTING; MORB; PETROGENESIS; PYROXENITE;

EID: 0030403148     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004100050184     Document Type: Article

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