Extreme chemical variability as a consequence of channelized melt transport

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2003, Pages

  Spiegelman, Marc ^a   Kelemen, Peter B ^b  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Magma dynamics; Reactive flow modeling; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

EID: 1942456993     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GC000336     Document Type: Article

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