Silica enrichment in the continental upper mantle via melt/rock reaction

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 164, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 387-406

  Kelemen, Peter B ^a   Hart, Stanley R ^a   Bernstein, Stefan ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b DANISH LITHOSPHERE CENTRE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Continental crust; Enrichment; Silica; Upper mantle

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL CRUST; ENRICHMENT; ORTHOPYROXENE; SILICA; UPPER MANTLE;

EID: 0032535807     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(98)00233-7     Document Type: Article

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