High pressure, near-liquidus phase equilibria of the Home plate basalt Fastball and melting in the Martian mantle

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 13, 2010, Pages

  Filiberto, Justin ^a   Dasgupta, Rajdeep ^a   Kiefer, Walter S ^b   Treiman, Allan H ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; MELTING; OLIVINE; SILICATE MINERALS;

HIGH PRESSURE; LIQUIDUS; LITHOSPHERE-ASTHENOSPHERE BOUNDARY; MARTIAN MANTLE; MELTING MODEL; MELTING PRESSURE; ORTHOPYROXENE; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE;

PHASE EQUILIBRIA;

ASTHENOSPHERE; BASALT; HIGH PRESSURE; LITHOSPHERE; MAGMA; MANTLE; MARS; MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE; MELTING; ORTHOPYROXENE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 77954680083     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL043999     Document Type: Article

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