Cr-spinel records metasomatism not petrogenesis of mantle rocks

Autor: Hamed Gamal El Dien, Shoji Arai, Luc-Serge Doucet, Zheng-Xiang Li, Youngwoo Kil, Denis Fougerouse, Steven M. Reddy, David W. Saxey, Mohamed Hamdy
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-13117-1
Popis: Chromian-spinel from mafic-ultramafic rocks is used as a reliable geotectonic and mantle melting indicator. Here, the authors argue that this only works partially – it can be used to assess information on mantle metasomatic processes but not petrogenesis.
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