Calcic melt inclusions in primitive olivine at 43°N MAR: evidence for melt-rock reaction/melting involving clinopyroxene-rich lithologies during MORB generation

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 160, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 115-132

  Kamenetsky, Vadim S ^a   Eggins, Stephen M ^b   Crawford, Anthony J ^a   Green, David H ^b   Gasparon, Massimo ^c   Falloon, Trevor J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINOPYROXENE; GEOCHEMISTRY; MELT INCLUSION; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASLAT; OLIVINE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN, MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE;

EID: 0031754931     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(98)00090-9     Document Type: Article

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