Calcium-rich melt inclusions in Cr-spinels from Borgarhraun, northern Iceland

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 183, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 15-26

  Sigurdsson, Ingvar Atli ^a,b,c   Steinthorsson, Sigurdur ^a   Grönvold, Karl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^c Nature Conservation Agency   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Chrome spinel; Heterogeneity; Inclusions; Picrite; Pyroxenite

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; INCLUSION; MELT; PYROXENITE; SPINEL;

ICELAND;

EID: 0034531797     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(00)00269-7     Document Type: Article

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