Composition of the lithospheric mantle in the siberian craton: New constraints from fresh peridotites in the Udachnaya-East Kimberlite

Journal of Petrology

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2177-2210

  Ionov, Dmitri A ^a   Doucet, L S ^a   Ashchepkov, Igor V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

^b SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Harzburgite; Mantle xenolith; Metasomatism; Partial melting; Siberian craton

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GARNET; HARZBURGITE; KIMBERLITE; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; PARTIAL MELTING; PERIDOTITE; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; TRACE ELEMENT; XENOLITH;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIAN CRATON;

EID: 77958600466     PISSN: 00223530     EISSN: 14602415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/petrology/egq053     Document Type: Article

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