The composition of near-solidus partial melts of fertile peridotite at 1 and 1.5 GPa: implications for the petrogenesis of MORB

Falloon, Trevor; Green, David; Danyushevsky, Leonid V.; McNeill, Andrew

doi:10.1093/petrology/egn009

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The composition of near-solidus partial melts of fertile peridotite at 1 and 1.5 GPa: implications for the petrogenesis of MORB

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Falloon, Trevor; Green, David; Danyushevsky, Leonid V.; McNeill, Andrew

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We have determined the near-solidus melt compositions for peridotite MM-3, a suitable composition for the production of mid-ocean ridge basalt (MORB) by decompression partial melting, at 1 and 1·5 GPa. At 1 GPa the MM-3 composition has a subsolidus plagi

Collections	ANU Research Publications
Date published:	2008
Type:	Journal article
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/1885/49883
Source:	Journal of Petrology
DOI:	10.1093/petrology/egn009

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The composition of near-solidus partial melts of fertile peridotite at 1 and 1.5 GPa: implications for the petrogenesis of MORB

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