Crystallization of megacrysts from protokimberlitic fluids: Geochemical evidence from high-Cr megacrysts in the Jericho kimberlite

Lithos

Volumn 112, Issue , 2009, Pages 284-295

  Kopylova, M G ^a   Nowell, G M ^b   Pearson, D G ^b   Markovic, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

High Cr megacryst suite; Isochrons; Kimberlite megacryst; Kimberlite metasomatism; Sr Nd Hf isotope composition; Trace element modeling

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM; CLINOPYROXENE; EMPLACEMENT; FLUID INCLUSION; GARNET; HAFNIUM; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; KIMBERLITE; MAGMATISM; MEGACRYST; METASOMATISM; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; OLIVINE; ORTHOPYROXENE; P-T CONDITIONS; PARTIAL MELTING; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PETROLOGY; RECRYSTALLIZATION; SILICATE MELT; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; TRACE ELEMENT;

EID: 71749104213     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2009.06.008     Document Type: Article

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