Redox state of deep off-craton lithospheric mantle: New data from garnet and spinel peridotites from Vitim, southern Siberia

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 164, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 731-745

  Goncharov, A G ^a,b,c   Ionov, D A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UMR6524 CNRS   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF PRECAMBRIAN GEOLOGY AND GEOCHRONOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Central Asia; Garnet peridotite; Garnet spinel transition; Mantle xenolith; Off craton lithosphere; Oxygen fugacity

Indexed keywords

ALKALI BASALT; CRATON; FUGACITY; GARNET; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; OXYGEN; PERIDOTITE; REDOX CONDITIONS; SPINEL;

CHINA; NORTH CHINA BLOCK; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHA; SIBERIAN CRATON; VITIM;

EID: 84867578412     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-012-0767-z     Document Type: Article

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