Composition and processes of the mantle lithosphere in northeastern Brazil and Fernando de Noronha: Evidence from mantle xenoliths

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 138, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 308-325

  Rivalenti, Giorgio ^a   Mazzucchelli, Maurizio ^a   Girardi, Vicente A V ^b   Vannucci, Riccardo ^c   Barbieri, M Adelaide ^a   Zanetti, Alberto ^c   Goldstein, Steve L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^d International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; MANTLE PROCESS; METASOMATISM; XENOLITH;

BRAZIL; PICO CABUJI VOLCANO; RIO GRANDE DO NORTE STATE;

EID: 0034112688     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004100050565     Document Type: Article

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