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Liquidus temperatures of komatiites and the effect of cooling rate on element partitioning between olivine and komatiitic melt

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2016-05-03

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Sossi, Paolo
O'Neill, Hugh St. C

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Springer Verlag

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Archean komatiites are the hottest magmas preserved on Earth and are thus unique probes of its thermal evolution. Estimating their eruption temperatures remains problematic, however, because the uppermost (A1, A2) zones of komatiite flows contain randomly oriented spinifex-textured olivines, indicative of rapid cooling and growth.

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Olivine, Komatiite, Fe–Mg, Liquidus, Equilibrium, Cooling rate, Temperature, Crystallisation, Redox

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/109166

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ANU Research Publications

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Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

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10.1007/s00410-016-1260-x

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