Recurrent Local Melting of Metasomatised Lithospheric Mantle in Response to Continental Rifting: Constraints from Basanites and Nephelinites/Melilitites from SE Germany

2018/04/01 by Jörg A. Pfänder, Jörg A Pfänder, Stefan Jung +7 · 45 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Asthenosphere #Geochemistry #Geological and Geochemical Analysis #Geology #Geomorphology #High-pressure geophysics and materials #Incompatible element #Lithosphere #Mantle (geology) #Paleontology #Partial melting #Phlogopite #Rift #Trace element #Volcano #earthquake and tectonic studies

paper · pdf · doi:10.1093/petrology/egy041

published in Journal of Petrology 59(4), 667-694 (Oxford University Press)

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Abstract

Author: Pfänder, J. et al.; Genre: Journal Article; Finally published : 2018; Title: Recurrent local melting of metasomatised lithospheric mantle in response to continental rifting: Constraints from basanites and nephelinites/melilitites from SE-Germany

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