The oxidation state of mantle wedge majoritic garnet websterites metasomatised by C-bearing subduction fluids

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 298, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 417-426

  Malaspina, N ^a   Scambelluri, M ^b   Poli, S ^a   Van Roermund, H L M ^c   Langenhorst, F ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITÄT BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

COH fluid; Diamond; Fluid speciation; Majoritic garnet; Mantle wedge; Oxygen fugacity

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS FLUIDS; ARCHEAN; CLINOPYROXENES; COH FLUID; CRYSTALLISATION; DIAMOND FORMATION; DOMINANT SPECIES; FAYALITE; FLUID PHASIS; GARNET PERIDOTITE; MAJORITE; MAJORITIC GARNET; MANTLE ROCKS; MANTLE WEDGE; MICRODIAMONDS; MINERAL ASSEMBLAGE; MINERAL ASSOCIATIONS; ORTHOPYROXENE; OXIDATION STATE; OXYGEN FUGACITY; PRESSURE INCREASE; PROTEROZOIC; TRANSITION ZONES; WESTERN GNEISS REGION;

CHROMIUM; DIAMOND DEPOSITS; DIAMONDS; FLUIDS; GARNETS; HYDRATES; IGNEOUS ROCKS; IRON ORES; MICA; MINERALS; OLIVINE; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; QUARTZ;

SILICATE MINERALS;

DIAMOND; FLUID COMPOSITION; FUGACITY; METASOMATISM; MINERAL EXPLORATION; OXYGEN; PROTEROZOIC; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY);

WESTERN GNEISS REGION;

ARCTIUM MINUS;

EID: 77957324450     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.08.022     Document Type: Article

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