Island-arc ankaramites: primitive melts from fluxed refractory lherzolitic mantle
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2004
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Green, David
Schmidt, M
Hibberson, William
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Oxford University Press
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The distinctive island-arc ankaramites exemplified by the active Vanuatu arc may be produced by melting of refractory lherzolite under conditions in which melting is fluxed by H2O + CO2. Parental picritic ankaramite magmas with maximum CaO/Al2O3 to ≥1.5
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Keywords: ankaramite; island arc; lherzolite; magma; mantle; melting; Melanesia; Pacific islands; Pacific Ocean; Vanuatu Ankaramites; Boninites; Fluxed melting; Island arcs; Mantle wedge
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Journal of Petrology
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