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Partial melting of lower crust at 10-15 kbar: Constraints on adakite and TTG formation

Date

Authors

QIAN, Qing

Hermann, Joerg

Publisher

Springer

Abstract

The pressure-temperature (P-T) conditions for producing adakite/tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite (TTG) magmas from lower crust compositions are still open to debate. We have carried out partial melting experiments of mafic lower crust in the piston-cyli

Keywords

Keywords: adakite; amphibole; amphibolite; continental crust; garnet; granodiorite; granulite; lower crust; mafic rock; magma; P-T conditions; partial melting; plagioclase; pyroxene; pyroxenite; strontium; tonalite; trace element; trondhjemite Adakite; Lower continental crust; Partial melting experiment; Trace element; TTG

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/72737

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ANU Research Publications

Source

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1007/s00410-013-0854-9

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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