Garnet fractionation in a hydrous magma ocean and the origin of Al-depleted komatiites: Melting experiments of hydrous pyrolite with REEs at high pressure

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 177, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 81-87

  Inoue, Toru ^a   Rapp, Robert P ^a   Zhang, Jianzhong ^a   Gasparik, Tibor ^a   Weidner, Donald J ^a   Irifune, Tetsuo ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Archean; Fractional crystallization; Garnet group; Komatiite; Melting; Rare earths

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY; FRACTIONATION; GARNET; HIGH PRESSURE; KOMATIITE; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; MELTING; RARE EARTH ELEMENT;

EID: 0034655990     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(00)00038-8     Document Type: Article

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