An alternative interpretation of lower mantle mineral associations in diamonds

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 16-21

  Liu, Lin gun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DIAMOND; ENSTATITE; INCLUSION; LITHOLOGY; LOWER MANTLE; PETROGENESIS;

EID: 0036820080     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-002-0389-y     Document Type: Article

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