Melt migration under oceanic ridges: Inferences from reactive transport modelling of upper mantle hosted dunites

Journal of Petrology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 575-599

  Suhr, Günter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bay of Islands Ophiolite; Dunite; Melt migration; Reactive transport; Upper mantle

Indexed keywords

DUNITE; MELT; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; PETROGENESIS; UPPER MANTLE;

CANADA; NEWFOUNDLAND;

EID: 0033024421     PISSN: 00223530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/petroj/40.4.575     Document Type: Article

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