Experimental constraints on rutile saturation during partial melting of metabasalt at the amphibolite to eclogite transition, with applications to TTG genesis

American Mineralogist

Volumn 94, Issue 8-9, 2009, Pages 1175-1186

  Xiong, Xiaolin ^a,b   Keppler, Hans ^b   Audétat, Andreas ^b   Gudfinnsson, Gudmundur ^b   Sun, Weidong ^a   Song, Maoshuang ^a   Xiao, Wansheng ^a   Yuan, Li ^a,b  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÄT BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amphibolite to eclogite transition; Archean subduction; Partial melting; Rutile; TTG

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; DEHYDRATION; IGNEOUS ROCKS; MELTING; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; SOLUBILITY; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ARCHEAN; COEXISTING MINERALS; ECLOGITES; EMPIRICAL EQUATIONS; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENTS; PARTIAL MELTING; RUTILE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

OXIDE MINERALS;

AMPHIBOLITE; ARCHEAN; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; ECLOGITE; EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY; GRANITE; HIGH PRESSURE; METABASALT; PARTIAL MELTING; RUTILE; SATURATION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TONALITE; TRONDHJEMITE;

EID: 76649137982     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am.2009.3158     Document Type: Article

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