Water in enstatite from Mid-Atlantic Ridge peridotite: Evidence for the water content of suboceanic mantle?

Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 543-546

  Gose, Jürgen ^a   Schmädicke, Esther ^a   Beran, Anton ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; MANTLE ROCKS; MANTLE WATER; MID ATLANTIC RIDGE; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAMS; ORTHOPYROXENE; PERIDOTITE XENOLITHS; UPPER MANTLE; WATER CONCENTRATIONS; WATER LOSS;

OCEANOGRAPHY; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS;

WATER CONTENT;

ENSTATITE; EXHUMATION; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; ORTHOPYROXENE; PERIDOTITE; UPPER MANTLE; WATER CONTENT; XENOLITH;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE;

EID: 69649085703     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G25558A.1     Document Type: Article

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