Crystallization pressures of mid-ocean ridge basalts derived from major element variations of glasses from equilibrium and fractional crystallization experiments

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Villiger, Samuel ^a   Müntener, Othmar ^b,c   Ulmer, Peter ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLINOPYROXENE; EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; GLASS; HIGH PRESSURE; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; PLAGIOCLASE;

EID: 34547905796     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JB004342     Document Type: Article

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