An experimental study of the grain-scale processes of peridotite melting: Implications for major and trace element distribution during equilibrium and disequilibrium melting

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 156, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 87-102

  Cascio, Mauro Lo ^a   Liang, Yan ^a   Shimizu, Nobumichi ^b   Hess, Paul C ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Disequilibrium melting; Dissolution; Grain scale processes; Melt rock reaction; Partial melting; Reactive boundary layer; Reprecipitation; Trace element fractionation; Trace element partitioning

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DIFFUSION; DISSOLUTION; MELTING; PERIDOTITE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); TRACE ELEMENT;

EID: 44449135073     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-007-0275-8     Document Type: Article

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