Garnet pyroxenite xenoliths and pyropic megacrysts in Scottish alkali basalts

Scottish Journal of Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 169-184

  Upton, B G J ^a   Aspen, P ^a   Hinton, R W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALI BASALT; GARNET; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; LITHOSPHERE; MEGACRYST; PETROLOGY; PYROPE; PYROXENITE; XENOLITH;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0344513246     PISSN: 00369276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/sjg39020169     Document Type: Article

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