Dehydration melting of nominally anhydrous mantle: The primacy of partitioning

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 176, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 54-68

  Hirschmann, Marc M ^a   Tenner, Travis ^a   Aubaud, Cyril ^a,b   Withers, A C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Hydrous melting; Low velocity zone; Mantle; Nominally anhydrous minerals

Indexed keywords

410-KM DISCONTINUITY; ANHYDROUS MANTLE; CONCENTRATION LIMITS; CRYOSCOPIC; EFFECT OF PRESSURE; EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION; EXPERIMENTAL VALUES; HIGH PRESSURE; HYDROUS MELTING; LOW PRESSURES; LOW VELOCITY ZONE; LOW VELOCITY ZONES; MANTLE; MANTLE GEOTHERM; MELT FRACTION; MELTING BEHAVIOR; NOMINALLY ANHYDROUS MINERALS; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PARTIAL MELT; PARTIAL MELTING; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; PRESSURE DEPENDENCE; SEISMIC PROPERTIES; STORAGE CAPACITY; THERMODYNAMIC MODEL; UPPER MANTLE;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DEHYDRATION; DEWATERING; GARNETS; MELTING; MINERALS; SILICATE MINERALS;

PRESSURE EFFECTS;

DEHYDRATION MELTING; ENRICHMENT; EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY; GARNET; HYDROUS MINERAL; LOW VELOCITY ZONE; MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; MANTLE SOURCE; PARAMETERIZATION; PARTIAL MELTING; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PERIDOTITE; PRESSURE EFFECT; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 68549087024     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2009.04.001     Document Type: Article

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