An experimental study of pyroxenite partial melts at 1 and 1.5 GPa: Implications for the major-element composition of Mid-Ocean Ridge Basalts

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 288, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 335-347

  Lambart, Sarah ^a   Laporte, Didier ^a   Schiano, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

Author keywords

experimental petrology; partial melting; primitive MORB; pyroxenite

Indexed keywords

CLINOPYROXENES; ELEMENT COMPOSITIONS; ELEMENT SIGNATURES; ENRICHED MANTLE; EXPERIMENTAL PETROLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FEO CONTENT; HETEROGENEOUS MANTLE; INCOMPATIBLE ELEMENT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LOW DEGREE; MAJOR ELEMENTS; MELT INCLUSIONS; MELT PRODUCTION; MELT PRODUCTIVITY; MELTING BEHAVIOR; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; ORTHOPYROXENE; PARTIAL MELT; PARTIAL MELTING; PISTON-CYLINDER APPARATUS; PRIMITIVE MORB; PYROXENITE; SOLID PHASIS; SOLIDUS TEMPERATURE; TIO;

BASALT; GLASS; IGNEOUS ROCKS; IRON OXIDES; LIQUIDS; OCEANOGRAPHY; OLIVINE; OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTORS; PETROGRAPHY; PETROLOGY; ROCKS; SILICATE MINERALS; SILICON COMPOUNDS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

MELTING;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MAGMA; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; ORTHOPYROXENE; PARTIAL MELTING; PERIDOTITE; PETROLOGY; PYROXENITE;

EID: 70350768987     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.09.038     Document Type: Article

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