Geochemical and Sr-Nd isotopic characteristics and pressure-temperature estimates of mantle xenoliths from the French Massif Central: Evidence for melting and multiple metasomatism by silicate-rich carbonatite and asthenospheric melts

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 337, Issue , 2010, Pages 153-175

  Yoshikawa, M ^a   Kawamoto, T ^a   Shibata, T ^a   Yamamoto, J ^a,b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTHENOSPHERE; CARBONATITE; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; MANTLE STRUCTURE; METASOMATISM; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; PARTIAL MELTING; PRESSURE EFFECT; SILICATE MELT; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK; XENOLITH;

FRANCE; MASSIF CENTRAL;

EID: 77956006914     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP337.8     Document Type: Article

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