Mg-Fe partitioning between olivine and mafic-ultramafic melts

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 13, 1998, Pages 2337-2340

  Kushiro, Ikuo ^a   Walter, Michael J ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; COMPOSITION EFFECTS; GEOCHEMISTRY; IRON OXIDES; MAGNESIA; MOLTEN MATERIALS; OLIVINE; POLYMERIZATION;

EXCHANGE PARTITION COEFFICIENT; ULTRAMAFIC MAGMAS; DEGREE OF POLYMERIZATION; EMPIRICAL RELATIONS; FEO CONTENT; MELT COMPOSITIONS; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; RELIABLE ESTIMATES;

PETROLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS;

IRON; MAGNESIUM; MELT COMPOSITION; OLIVINE;

EID: 0032125339     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL01844     Document Type: Article

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