Survival times of anomalous melt inclusions from element diffusion in olivine and chromite

Nature

Volumn 447, Issue 7142, 2007, Pages 303-306

  Spandler, C ^a,c   O'Neill, H St C ^a   Kamenetsky, V S ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELEMENT; MINERAL;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHROMITE; COOLING; CRUST; DIFFUSION; ELEMENT MOBILITY; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; LAVA; LOW PRESSURE; MAGMA; MAGNESIUM; MANTLE SOURCE; MELT INCLUSION; OLIVINE; PARTIAL MELTING; PHENOCRYST; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; RECONSTRUCTION; TRACE ELEMENT; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COOLING; DIFFUSION; MELTING POINT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE; TEMPERATURE; VOLCANO;

EID: 34249005645     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05759     Document Type: Article

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