Peridotite xenoliths from Ethiopia: Inferences about mantle processes from plume to rift settings

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 478, Issue , 2011, Pages 77-104

  Beccaluva, Luigi ^a   Bianchini, Gianluca ^a,b   Ellam, Robert M ^c   Natali, Claudio ^a   Santato, Alessandro ^a   Siena, Franca ^a   Stuart, Finlay M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; RARE EARTHS; SILICATE MINERALS;

CONTINENTAL FLOOD BASALT; EQUILIBRIUM CONDITIONS; IN COMPOSITIONS; MAIN ETHIOPIAN RIFT; MANTLE XENOLITHS; NEOGENE QUATERNARIES; PERIDOTITE XENOLITHS; SPINEL-LHERZOLITE;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

FLOOD BASALT; HARZBURGITE; LHERZOLITE; LITHOTYPE; MANTLE PLUME; MANTLE PROCESS; NEOGENE; P-T CONDITIONS; PERIDOTITE; PETROLOGY; QUATERNARY; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; XENOLITH;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 80051863326     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2011.2478(05)     Document Type: Article

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