Island-arc ankaramites: Primitive melts from fluxed refractory lherzolitic mantle

Journal of Petrology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 391-403

  Green, D H ^a   Schmidt, M W ^a,b   Hibberson, W O ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ankaramites; Boninites; Fluxed melting; Island arcs; Mantle wedge

Indexed keywords

ANKARAMITE; ISLAND ARC; LHERZOLITE; MAGMA; MANTLE; MELTING;

MELANESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; VANUATU;

EID: 1342268732     PISSN: 00223530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/petrology/egg101     Document Type: Article

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