Oman diopsidites: a new lithology diagnostic of very high temperature hydrothermal circulation in mantle peridotite below oceanic spreading centres

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 255, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 289-305

  Python, Marie ^a,b   Ceuleneer, Georges ^a   Ishida, Yoshito ^b   Barrat, Jean Alix ^c   Arai, Shoji ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EUROPÉEN DE LA MER   (France)

Author keywords

diopside; dyke; hydrothermalism; Oman; serpentine metamorphism

Indexed keywords

DIOPSIDE; HYDROTHERMALISM; LITHOSPHERE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; MINERALS; SEAWATER; TECTONICS;

LITHOLOGY;

CRYSTALLIZATION; DIOPSIDE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HOST ROCK; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; LITHOLOGY; MAGMATIC DIFFERENTIATION; MANTLE SOURCE; OPHIOLITE; PARAGENESIS; SKARN;

ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; OMAN;

EID: 33847274254     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.12.030     Document Type: Article

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