Distribution of REE between clinopyroxene and basaltic melt along a mantle adiabat: Effects of major element composition, water, and temperature

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 163, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 807-823

  Sun, Chenguang ^a   Liang, Yan ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adiabatic mantle melting; Basaltic melt; Clinopyroxene; Predictive model; REE partition coefficient

Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC PROCESS; CLINOPYROXENE; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; MELT; MELTING; MODELING; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 84859733993     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-011-0700-x     Document Type: Article

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