Using apatite to dispel the "trapped liquid" concept and to understand the loss of interstitial liquid by compaction in mafic cumulates: An example from the Stillwater Complex, Montana

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 151, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 187-201

  Meurer, W P ^a,b   Meurer, M E S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^c EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE; COMPACTION; CUMULATE; INTERSTITIAL ENVIRONMENT;

MONTANA; NORTH AMERICA; STILLWATER COMPLEX; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33644796173     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-005-0054-3     Document Type: Article

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