Thin intergranular melt films and melt pockets in spinel peridotite xenoliths from the Rhon area (Germany): early stage of melt generation by grain boundary melting

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 129, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 268-283

  Franz, Leander ^a   Wirth, Richard ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAIN BOUNDARY MELTING; MELT GENERATION; PERIDOTITE; XENOLITH;

GERMANY;

EID: 0031371151     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004100050337     Document Type: Article

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