Compositions of partial melts formed in mantle peridotites at high pressures and their relation to those of primitive MORB

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 107, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 103-110

  Kushiro, Ikuo ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORB; PARTIAL MELT; PERIDOTITE;

EID: 0032522015     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9201(97)00128-3     Document Type: Article

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