Compositional variations and heterogeneity in fertile lithospheric mantle: Peridotite xenoliths in basalts from Tariat, Mongolia

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 154, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 455-477

  Ionov, Dmitri A ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Major elements; Mantle heterogeneities; Peridotite xenolith; Primitive mantle; Spinel lherzolite

Indexed keywords

BASALT; LHERZOLITE; MANTLE; PERIDOTITE; SPINEL; XENOLITH;

ARHANGAY; ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; MONGOLIA; TARIAT;

EID: 34548274662     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-007-0203-y     Document Type: Article

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