Deep melting and sodic metasomatism underneath the highly oblique-spreading Lena Trough (Arctic Ocean)

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 216, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 283-299

  Hellebrand, Eric ^a   Snow, Jonathan E ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abyssal peridotite; Melt rock reaction; Metasomatism; Partial melting; Secondary ion mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

FRACTIONATION; METASOMATISM; PARTIAL MELTING; PERIDOTITE; PETROGRAPHY; SPREADING CENTER;

ARCTIC OCEAN; LENA TROUGH;

EID: 0345303953     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00508-9     Document Type: Article

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