Immiscibility between calciocarbonatitic and silicate melts and related wall rock reactions in the upper mantle: A natural case study from Romanian mantle xenoliths

Lithos

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 627-659

  Chalot Prat, Françoise ^a,b   Arnold, Michel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b CRPG CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMISCIBILITY; METASOMATISM; SILICATE MELT; UPPER MANTLE; XENOLITH;

PERSANI MOUNTAINS; ROMANIA;

EID: 0032783390     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0024-4937(98)00067-x     Document Type: Article

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