Depleted spinel harzburgite xenoliths in Tertiary dykes from East Greenland: Restites from high degree melting

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 154, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 221-235

  Bernstein, Stefan ^a   Kelemen, Peter B ^b   Brooks, C Kent ^a,c  

^a DANISH LITHOSPHERE CENTRE   (Denmark)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Greenland; Harzburgite; Komatiite; Partial melting; Xenoliths

Indexed keywords

HARZBURGITE; PARTIAL MELTING; TERTIARY; XENOLITH;

GREENLAND;

EID: 0031852581     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0012-821x(97)00175-1     Document Type: Article

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