Gabbroic intrusions and magmatic metasomatism in harzburgites from the Garrett transform fault: Implications for the nature of the mantle-crust transition at fast-spreading ridges

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 136, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 111-130

  Constantin, Marc ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY; GABBRO; HARZBURGITE; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; METASOMATISM; MID-OCEAN RIDGE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032736343     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004100050527     Document Type: Article

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