Alkali picrites formed by melting of old metasomatized lithospheric mantle: Manîtdlat member, vaigat formation, Palaeocene of West Greenland

Journal of Petrology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 3-38

  Larsen, Lotte M ^a,e   Pedersen, Asger K ^b,e   Sundvoll, Bjørn ^c   Frei, Robert ^d,e  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e DANISH LITHOSPHERE CENTRE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Alkali picrite; Amphibole melting; Greenland; Lithosphere melting; Metasomatism

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLE; GEOCHEMISTRY; MANTLE SOURCE; MELTING; METASOMATISM; PETROGENESIS; PICRITE;

DISKO; GREENLAND;

EID: 0037252290     PISSN: 00223530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/petrology/44.1.3     Document Type: Article

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