A close look at dihedral angles and melt geometry in olivine-basalt aggregates: A TEM study

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 130, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 336-345

  Cmíral, Martin ^a   Fitz Gerald, John D ^a   Faul, Ulrich H ^a   Green, David H ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE; BASALT; OLIVINE; PARTIAL MELTING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0032464955     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004100050369     Document Type: Article

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