The origin of spongy texture in minerals of mantle xenoliths from the Western Qinling, central China

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 161, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 465-482

  Su, Ben Xun ^a,b   Zhang, Hong Fu ^a   Sakyi, Patrick Asamoah ^c   Yang, Yue Heng ^a   Ying, Ji Feng ^a   Tang, Yan Jie ^a   Qin, Ke Zhang ^a   Xiao, Yan ^a   Zhao, Xin Miao ^a   Mao, Qian ^a   Ma, Yu Guang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Decompression; Mantle peridotite; Partial melting; Spongy texture; Western Qinling

Indexed keywords

CLINOPYROXENE; DECOMPRESSION; GRAIN BOUNDARY; MANTLE SOURCE; MINERAL; PARTIAL MELTING; PERIDOTITE; SPINEL; TEXTURE; TRACE ELEMENT; XENOLITH; ZONING;

CHINA;

EID: 79551690155     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-010-0543-x     Document Type: Article

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