Aluminous websterite and granulite xenoliths from the Chyulu Hills volcanic field, Kenya: Gabbro-troctolitic cumulates subjected to lithospheric foundering

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 152, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 459-483

  Ulianov, Alexey ^a,c   Kalt, Angelika ^a   Pettke, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; FRACTIONATION; GABBRO; GRANULITE; OLIVINE GROUP; PLAGIOCLASE; PROTOLITH; XENOLITH;

AFRICA; CHYULU HILLS; EAST AFRICA; KENYA; RIFT VALLEY; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 33748682128     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-006-0114-3     Document Type: Article

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