The importance of talc and chlorite "hybrid" rocks for volatile recycling through subduction zones; evidence from the high-pressure subduction mélange of New Caledonia

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 155, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 181-198

  Spandler, Carl ^a   Hermann, Jörg ^b   Faure, Kevin ^c   Mavrogenes, John A ^b   Arculus, Richard J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORITE; DEHYDRATION; ECLOGITE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MELANGE; METASOMATISM; OCEANIC CRUST; PARTIAL MELTING; SCHIST; SERPENTINITE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TALC;

MELANESIA; NEW CALEDONIA [MELANESIA]; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 37549023754     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-007-0236-2     Document Type: Article

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