Highly magnesian olivines and green-core clinopyroxenes in ultrapotassic lavas from western Yunnan, China: Evidence for a complex hybrid origin

European Journal of Mineralogy

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 965-975

  Xu, Yigang ^a   Huang, Xiaolong ^a   Menzies, Martin A ^b   Wang, Rucheng ^c  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Green core clinopyroxene; Magnesian olivine; Ultrapotassic lavas; Yunnan

Indexed keywords

BASALT; CALCIUM OXIDE; CHROMIUM COMPOUNDS; FLOODS; MAGNESIA;

CLINOPYROXENES; EMEISHAN LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCES; HIGH VELOCITY; POTENTIAL SOURCES; ULTRAPOTASSIC LAVAS; ULTRAPOTASSIC MAGMA; WESTERN YUNNAN; YUNNAN;

OLIVINE;

CLINOPYROXENE; LAVA; MAGMA CHEMISTRY; OLIGOCENE; OLIVINE; PETROLOGY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; YUNNAN;

EID: 0346640356     PISSN: 09351221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0935-1221/2003/0015-0965     Document Type: Article

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