Experimental data on Fe and Mg partitioning between coexisting sapphirine and spinel: An empirical geothermometer and its application

European Journal of Mineralogy

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 49-58

  Das, Kaushik ^a   Fujino, Kiyoshi ^b   Tomioka, Naotaka ^c   Miura, Hiroyuki ^b  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Application to natural rocks; Fe Mg exchange thermometer; Sapphirine spinel granulites; UHT metamorphism

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; IRON; MAGNESIUM; MAGNESIUM ALLOYS; SILICATE MINERALS; THERMOMETERS;

COMPOSITIONAL DATA; DESIGNED EXPERIMENTS; DISTRIBUTION COEFFICIENT; NATURAL ROCKS; SAPPHIRINE-SPINEL GRANULITES; STOICHIOMETRIC COMPOSITIONS; STRONG DEPENDENCES; UHT METAMORPHISM;

IRON ALLOYS;

GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOTHERMOMETRY; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM;

EID: 33644933114     PISSN: 09351221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0935-1221/2006/0018-0049     Document Type: Article

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