Heterogeneous mantle underneath the North Atlantic: Evidence from water in orthopyroxene, mineral composition and equilibrium conditions of spinel peridotite from different locations at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Lithos

Volumn 125, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 308-320

  Schmädicke, Esther ^a   Gose, Jürgen ^a   Will, Thomas M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Geothermobarometry; Infrared spectroscopy; Mid Atlantic Ridge; Nominally anhydrous minerals; Orthopyroxene; Spinel peridotite

Indexed keywords

ENSTATITE; EQUILIBRIUM; EXHUMATION; GEOBAROMETRY; GEOTHERMOMETRY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MANTLE; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; MINERALOGY; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; ORTHOPYROXENE; PARTIAL MELTING; PERIDOTITE; SPINEL; TRACE ELEMENT; WATER CONTENT; XENOLITH;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE;

EID: 79958803383     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2011.02.014     Document Type: Article

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