Consistent olivine Mg# in cratonic mantle reflects Archean mantle melting to the exhauston of orthopyroxene

Geology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 459-462

  Bernstein, Stefan ^a   Kelemen, Peter B ^b   Hanghøj, Karen ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Archean; Cratonic mantle; Dunite xenoliths; Residues; Spinel peridotite

Indexed keywords

CRATONIC MANTLE; DUNITE XENOLITHS; MANTLE; ORTHOPYROXENE; SPINEL PERIDOTITE;

BASALT; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; EXTRACTION; GEOCHEMISTRY; MELTING; OLIVINE;

GEOLOGY;

ARCHEAN; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; MELTING; OLIVINE; ORTHOPYROXENE; PERIDOTITE; XENOLITH;

EID: 34248587912     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G23336A.1     Document Type: Article

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