Trace element partitioning between majoritic garnet and silicate melt at 10-17GPa: Implications for deep mantle processes

Lithos

Volumn 148, Issue , 2012, Pages 128-141

  Corgne, Alexandre ^a,b,c   Armstrong, Lora S ^a,d   Keshav, Shantanu ^a,e   Fei, Yingwei ^a   McDonough, William F ^f   Minarik, William G ^g   Moreno, Karen ^c  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^f University of Maryland   (United States)

^g MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diamonds; Garnet; Komatiites; Majorite; Mars; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DIAMOND; GARNET; KOMATIITE; MANTLE; MANTLE SOURCE; MARS; MELTING; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRESSURE EFFECT; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SILICATE MELT; SOURCE ROCK; TRACE ELEMENT;

BARBERTON; GUINEA; MPUMALANGA; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84863215745     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2012.06.013     Document Type: Article

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