creators_name: Kamenetsky, VS
creators_id: Dima.Kamenetsky@utas.edu.au
type: article
datestamp: 2006-08-08
lastmod: 2008-07-18 09:41:10
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title: Methodology for the study of melt inclusions in Cr-spinel, and implications for parental melts of MORB from FAMOUS area
ispublished: pub
subjects: 260100
full_text_status: restricted
monograph_type: NULL
keywords: FAMOUS; mid-ocean ridge basalts; inclusions; chrome spinel; experimental studies; olivine; trace elements; melts
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abstract: Melt inclusions trapped in Cr-spinel in mid-ocean ridge picrites (FAMOUS area, Atlantic Ocean) were studied using a heating stage and analyzed with both electron and ion microprobes. This new technique can provide information on the most primitive magma compositions, olivine 'spine melt' compositional relationships, crystallization temperature and geochemical diversity of parental melts. The study of melt inclusions in spinel can be applied to different high-Mg suites to show the effects of shallow level fractionation, mixing and contamination that usually affect the composition of volcanic rocks and glasses.
date: 1996
date_type: published
publication: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
volume: 142
number: 3-4
pagerange: 479-486
id_number: 10.1016/0012-821X(96)00117-3
institution: University of Tasmania
thesis_type: UNSPECIFIED
refereed: TRUE
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0012-821X(96)00117-3
citation: Kamenetsky, VS (1996) Methodology for the study of melt inclusions in Cr-spinel, and implications for parental melts of MORB from FAMOUS area. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 142 (3-4). pp. 479-486.
document_url: http://eprints.utas.edu.au/294/1/EPSL142-FAMOUS.pdf