Experimental constraints on the role of garnet pyroxenite in the Genesis of high-Fe mantle plume derived melts

Journal of Petrology

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2023-2058

  Tuff, J ^a   Takahashi, E ^b,c   Gibson, S A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Continental flood basalt; Ferropicrite; Mantle heterogeneity; Mantle melting; Phase relations; Pyroxenite

Indexed keywords

MANTLE PLUME; PHASE EQUILIBRIUM; PYROXENITE;

EID: 24944474927     PISSN: 00223530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/petrology/egi046     Document Type: Article

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