Evidence for high silicic melt circulation and metasomatic events in the mantle beneath alkaline provinces: The Na-Fe-augitic green-core pyroxenes in the Tertiary alkali basalts of the Cantal massif (French Massif Central)

Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 76, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 39-62

  Pilet, S ^a   Hernandez, J ^a   Villemant, B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALI BASALT; GRAIN BOUNDARY; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MELT; METASOMATISM; PERIDOTITE; PYROXENE; REMOBILIZATION; SILICA; TERTIARY;

FRANCE; MASSIF CENTRAL;

EID: 0344979958     PISSN: 09300708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007100200031     Document Type: Article

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