Closed-system geochemical recycling of crustal materials in alpine-type peridotite

Morishita, Tomoaki; Arai, Shoji; Geddes, Robert Stanley; Green, David

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Closed-system geochemical recycling of crustal materials in alpine-type peridotite

Date

2003

Authors

Morishita, Tomoaki

Arai, Shoji

Geddes, Robert Stanley

Green, David

Publisher

Pergamon-Elsevier Ltd

Abstract

We examined aluminous mafic rock (with or without corundum or sapphirine) alternating with peridotite from the Ronda peridotite massif, southern Spain. On the basis of petrographic characteristics, these mafic rocks show a decompression history from high