Silicic glasses trapped in peridotite xenoliths: An insight into melting and metasomatism processes in mantle peridotite

Japanese Magazine of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 205-215

  Ishimaru, Satoko ^a   Arai, Shoji ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arc; Continental rift; Felsic glasses; Mantle metasomatism; Oceanic island; Peridotite xenolith

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149287423     PISSN: 1345630X     EISSN: 13497979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2465/gkk.34.205     Document Type: Article

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