Melt Extraction and Compositional Variability in Mantle Lithosphere

Treatise on Geochemistry

Volumn 2-9, Issue , 2003, Pages 363-394

  Walter, M J ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION; MELTING; SILICA;

ARCHAEAN; CHEMICAL TREND; CHEMICAL VARIABILITY; COMPOSITIONAL VARIABILITY; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; MAJOR ELEMENTS; MANTLE LITHOSPHERE; MELT EXTRACTION; OCEANIC CRUST; PARTIAL MELT;

COOLING;

EID: 84942414349     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B0-08-043751-6/02008-9     Document Type: Chapter

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