High-pressure partial melting of garnet pyroxenite: Possible mafic lithologies in the source of ocean island basalts

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 216, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 603-617

  Kogiso, Tetsu ^a,b,c   Hirschmann, Marc M ^a   Frost, Daniel J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÄT BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alkali basalt; Experimental petrology; Mantle heterogeneity; Partial melting; Pyroxenite

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GARNET; HIGH PRESSURE; OCEAN ISLAND BASALT; PARTIAL MELTING; PETROLOGY; PYROXENITE;

EID: 0348166033     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00538-7     Document Type: Article

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