The Skaergaard liquid line of descent revisited

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 157, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 735-747

  Thy, Peter ^a   Lesher, Charles E ^a   Tegner, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Fe Ti oxides; Greenland; Ilmenite; Iron enrichment; Layered series; Liquid line of descent; Magnetite; Oxygen fugacity; Petrology; Silica depletion; Skaergaard intrusion

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; FRACTIONATION; FUGACITY; GABBRO; IRON; LAYERED INTRUSION; MAGNETITE; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; PETROGRAPHY; PETROLOGY;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; SKAERGAARD INTRUSION;

EID: 67349191009     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-008-0361-6     Document Type: Article

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