Melting experiments on the forsterite-pyrope system at 8 and 13.5 GPa

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 107, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 97-102

  Kato, Takumi ^a   Nakata, Naoko ^a   Ohtani, Eiji ^a   Onuma, Kosuke ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

FORSTERITE-PYROPE SYSTEM; MELTING EXPERIMENT; PHASE RELATIONS;

EID: 0032522004     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9201(97)00127-1     Document Type: Article

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