Silicate glasses in spinel lherzolites from Yemen: Origin and chemical composition

Chemical Geology

Volumn 134, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 159-179

  Chazot, Gilles ^a,c   Menzies, Martin ^a   Harte, Ben ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Geochemistry; Glasses; Lherzolites; Mantle; Melting; Metasomatism; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; LHERZOLITE; MELTING; METASOMATISM; SILICATE GLASS; TRACE ELEMENT;

YEMEN;

EID: 0030434596     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2541(96)00086-1     Document Type: Article

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