Coupled major and trace elements as indicators of the extent of melting in mid-ocean-ridge peridotites

Nature

Volumn 410, Issue 6829, 2001, Pages 677-681

  Hellebrand, Eric ^a   Snow, Jonathan E ^a   Dick, Henry J B ^b   Hofmann, Albrecht W ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; BASALT; INDICATORS (CHEMICAL); MELTING; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS;

METASOMATIC PROCESS;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

ALUMINUM; CERIUM; DYSPROSIUM; ERBIUM; EUROPIUM; LANTHANIDE; MAGNESIUM; MINERAL; NEODYMIUM; SAMARIUM; TRACE ELEMENT; YTTERBIUM;

INDICATOR MINERAL; MELTING; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; PERIDOTITE; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; TRACE ELEMENT;

ARTICLE; MELTING POINT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0035810231     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35070546     Document Type: Article

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