On the significance of ultra-magnesian olivines in basaltic rocks

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1095-1098

  Keiding, J K ^a   Trumbull, R B ^a   Veksler, I V ^a,b   Jerram, D A ^c  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c DOUGALEARTH LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; BASALTIC ROCKS; EARLY EARTH; FORSTERITES; LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCES; MANTLE PLUME; MANTLE SOURCE; MELT EXTRACTION; MELT INCLUSIONS; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; NAMIBIA; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; THERMAL ANOMALIES;

BASALT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; TRACE ELEMENTS;

OLIVINE;

BASALT; FORSTERITE; KOMATIITE; LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCE; MAGMA; MELT INCLUSION; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; OLIVINE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TRACE ELEMENT;

ETENDEKA; NAMIBIA;

EID: 80955139376     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32214.1     Document Type: Article

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