Non-modal melting in an upwelling mantle column: Steady-state models with applications to REE depletion in abyssal peridotites and the dynamics of melt migration in the mantle

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 321-339

  Liang, Yan ^a   Peng, Qinglan ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GARNET; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; LITHOLOGY; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; MELTING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PERIDOTITE; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SPINEL; TRACE ELEMENT;

CENTRAL INDIAN RIDGE; INDIAN OCEAN; MID-INDIAN RIDGE;

EID: 70449506903     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2009.09.029     Document Type: Article

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