MORB melting processes beneath the southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge “40-55°S”: A role for mantle plume-derived pyroxenite

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 206-229

  le Roux, P J ^a   le Roex, A P ^a   Schilling, J G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANTLE PLUME; MELTING; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; PETROGENESIS; PYROXENITE; TRACE ELEMENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE;

EID: 0036867889     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-002-0376-3     Document Type: Article

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