High degrees of melt extraction recorded by spinel harzburgite of the Newfoundland margin: The role of inheritance and consequences for the evolution of the southern North Atlantic

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 252, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 437-452

  Müntener, Othmar ^a   Manatschal, Gianreto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG EOST   (France)

Author keywords

Mantle melting; Newfoundland margin; ODP Leg 210; Spinel harzburgite

Indexed keywords

MELT EXTRACTION; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; SPINEL HARZBURGITE;

BASALT; EXTRACTION; IGNEOUS ROCKS; MASS TRANSFER; MELTING; PHASE DIAGRAMS;

UNDERWATER MINERALOGY;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; EXHUMATION; EXTRACTION; HARZBURGITE; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; MELT INCLUSION; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; PARTIAL MELTING; RIFTING; SEAFLOOR; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ASIA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); CANADA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; IBERIAN MARGIN; JAPAN; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33751171315     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.10.009     Document Type: Article

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