The roles of melt infiltration and cumulate assimilation in the formation of anorthosite and a Cr-spinel seam in the Rum Eastern Layered Intrusion, NW Scotland

Lithos

Volumn 111, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 6-20

  O'Driscoll, Brian ^a   Donaldson, Colin H ^b   Daly, J Stephen ^a   Emeleus, C Henry ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cr spinel seam; Cumulate assimilation; Melt infiltration; Picrite; Sulphide

Indexed keywords

ANORTHOSITE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHROMIUM; CRYSTALLIZATION; CUMULATE; EMPLACEMENT; INFILTRATION; LAYERED INTRUSION; PERIDOTITE; PETROGRAPHY; PICRITE; SPINEL; SULFIDE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; HIGHLAND; RUM; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 65649154035     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2008.11.011     Document Type: Article

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