Mantle plumes and flood basalts: Enhanced melting from plume ascent and an eclogite component

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 106, Issue B2, 2001, Pages 2047-2059

  Leitch, A M ^a,b   Davies, G F ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECLOGITE; FLOOD BASALT; MANTLE PLUME; PARTIAL MELTING; PETROGENESIS; PETROLOGY;

EID: 0035066212     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000jb900307     Document Type: Article

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