The distribution of lithium in peridotitic and pyroxenitic mantle lithologies - an indicator of magmatic and metasomatic processes

Chemical Geology

Volumn 166, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 47-64

  Seitz, Hans Michael ^a   Woodland, Alan B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lithium; Magmatic processes; Mantle peridotite; Metasomatism; Partition behaviour

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM; MAGMATISM; MANTLE; METASOMATISM; PERIDOTITE; PYROXENITE;

EID: 0034192070     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2541(99)00184-9     Document Type: Article

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