Eclogitic and websteritic diamond sources beneath the Limpopo Belt - Is slab-melting the link?

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 56-70

  Aulbach, Sonja ^a   Stachel, Thomas ^a   Viljoen, K Stephanus ^b   Brey, Gerhard P ^a   Harris, Jeff W ^c  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b De Beers Group   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAMOND; ECLOGITE; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; INCLUSION; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; PARAGENESIS; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SLAB; TRACE ELEMENT; WEBSTERITE;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0036556199     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-001-0331-8     Document Type: Article

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