Diffuse porous melt flow and melt-rock reaction in the mantle lithosphere at a slow-spreading ridge: A structural petrology and LA-ICP-MS study of the Othris Peridotite Massif (Greece)

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2003, Pages

  Dijkstra, Arjan H ^a   Barth, Matthias G ^b   Drury, Martyn R ^b   Mason, Paul R D ^b   Vissers, Reinoud L M ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Melt migration; Microstructures; Mid ocean ridge; Ophiolite; Peridotite; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

EID: 2342430785     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GC000278     Document Type: Article

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