Links between mantle metasomatism and lithium isotopes: Evidence from glass-bearing and cryptically metasomatized xenoliths from Mongolia

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 276, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 214-222

  Magna, Tomáš ^a,b   Ionov, Dmitri A ^c   Oberli, Felix ^a   Wiechert, Uwe ^d  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

late stage diffusion; lithium isotopes; lithospheric mantle; melt pocket; metasomatism; Mongolia; peridotite xenolith

Indexed keywords

LATE-STAGE DIFFUSION; LITHIUM ISOTOPES; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; METASOMATISM; MONGOLIA; PERIDOTITE XENOLITH;

ISOTOPES; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; OLIVINE; REFRACTORY MATERIALS; SILICATE MINERALS;

LITHIUM;

CLINOPYROXENE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; LITHIUM; MELTING; METASOMATISM; PERIDOTITE; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; XENOLITH;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; MONGOLIA;

EID: 55549102611     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.09.027     Document Type: Article

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