Recent researches on melt-rock interaction in the Lanzo south peridotite

Ofioliti

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 135-160

  Piccardo, Giovanni B ^a   Zanetti, Alberto ^b   Spagnolo, Gianluca ^a,b   Poggi, Eugenio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Mantle lithosphere; Melt percolation; Melt peridotite interaction; Peridotite; Trace elements. Lanzo; Western alps

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846888663     PISSN: None     EISSN: 03912612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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