The energetics of melting fertile heterogeneities within the depleted mantle

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Katz, Richard F ^a   Rudge, John F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

eclogite; heat conduction; magma; mantle heterogeneity; partial melting; pyroxenite

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; DISSOLUTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PECLET NUMBER; RECYCLING;

ECLOGITES; MAGMA; MANTLE HETEROGENEITY; PARTIAL MELTING; PYROXENITE;

MELTING;

DIFFUSION; ECLOGITE; ENERGETICS; HETEROGENEITY; MAGMA; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CRUST; PARTIAL MELTING; PERIDOTITE; PHASE EQUILIBRIUM; PYROXENITE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; UPPER MANTLE; UPWELLING;

EID: 80055056671     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GC003834     Document Type: Article

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