Spinel-producing partial melting reaction in pelitic gneisses: Petrographical and synthetic experimental approach

Japanese Magazine of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 97-110

  Beppu, Masaaki ^a   Furukawa, Noboru ^a   Hiroi, Yoshikuni ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cordierite; Partial melting; Pelitic gneiss; Plagioclase; Spinel

Indexed keywords

EID: 1242309540     PISSN: 1345630X     EISSN: 13497979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2465/gkk.31.97     Document Type: Article

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