Chemical variability of mid-ocean ridge basalts as a function of the geodynamic setting of their formation

Petrology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 314-334

  Dmitriev, L V ^a  

^a VERNADSKY INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

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