High-pressure partial melting of gabbro and its role in the Hawaiian magma source

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 154, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 371-383

  Yaxley, Greg M ^a   Sobolev, A V ^b,c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b VERNADSKY INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Eclogite; Gabbro; Hawaiian picrite; Mantle melting

Indexed keywords

COESITE; ECLOGITE; GABBRO; GARNET; HIGH PRESSURE; MAGMA; MELT INCLUSION; PARTIAL MELTING; PICRITE; PYROXENITE; STRONTIUM;

HAWAII [(ISL) HAWAIIAN ISLANDS]; HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; MAUNA LOA; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34548221082     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-007-0198-4     Document Type: Article

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