Garnet pyroxenite, eclogite and alkremite xenoliths from the off-craton Gibeon Kimberlite Field, Namibia: A window into the upper mantle of the Rehoboth Terrane

Precambrian Research

Volumn 191, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 1-17

  Schmadicke E ^a   Okrusch, M ^b   Rupprecht Gutowski, P ^b,c   Will, T M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c Lenser Filtration GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alkremite; Eclogite; Garnet pyroxenite; Geothermobarometry; Gibeon kimberlite; Mantle xenolith

Indexed keywords

ALKALI FELDSPAR; AMPHIBOLE; CLINOPYROXENE; CRATON; ECLOGITE; GARNET; GEOBAROMETRY; GEOTHERMOMETRY; KIMBERLITE; LITHOLOGY; MANTLE STRUCTURE; PETROLOGY; PROTOLITH; PYROXENITE; RUTILE; TERRANE; UPPER MANTLE; XENOLITH;

NAMIBIA;

EID: 80053341008     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2011.07.010     Document Type: Article

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