A comparative study of continental vs. intraoceanic arc mantle melting: Experimentally determined phase relations of hydrous primitive melts

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 308, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 97-106

  Weaver, Stephanie L ^a   Wallace, Paul J ^a   Johnston, A Dana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Aleutians; Experimental phase equilibria; Harzburgite; Mantle melting; Mexico; Subduction zones

Indexed keywords

ALEUTIANS; EXPERIMENTAL PHASE EQUILIBRIA; HARZBURGITES; MANTLE MELTING; ME-XICO; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

BASALT; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTS; IGNEOUS ROCKS; MELTING; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; OLIVINE; SILICON COMPOUNDS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

PHASE EQUILIBRIA;

CONTINENTAL ARC; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY; GEODYNAMICS; HARZBURGITE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MELT INCLUSION; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; SUBDUCTION ZONE; UPPER MANTLE;

ALASKA; ALEUTIAN ISLANDS; FOX ISLANDS; JORULLO; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; MICHOACAN; OKMOK VOLCANO; UMNAK ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79959939056     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.05.040     Document Type: Article

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