Pyroxenites from the Southwest Indian Ridge, 9-16°E: Cumulates from incremental melt fractions produced at the top of a cold melting regime

Physics & Astronomy

• affinity 8%
• asthenosphere 14%
• basalt 44%
• breakdown 6%
• crystallization 24%
• Earth mantle 18%
• garnets 8%
• inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry 11%
• laser ablation 7%
• lithology 12%
• lithosphere 12%
• melting 42%
• mid-ocean ridges 100%
• occurrences 6%
• paradoxes 9%
• peridotite 40%
• petrogenesis 16%
• plagioclase 37%
• pressure reduction 9%
• pyroxenes 45%
• rare earth elements 6%
• ridges 54%
• solidus 10%
• spinel 22%
• textures 6%
• trace elements 10%
• veins 9%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• ablation 6%
• asthenosphere 6%
• clinopyroxene 12%
• cold 38%
• crystallization 9%
• cumulate 62%
• decompression 6%
• electron probe analysis 6%
• emplacement 5%
• fractional crystallization 13%
• garnet 5%
• lithology 5%
• lithosphere 5%
• mantle source 6%
• mass spectrometry 5%
• melt 39%
• melting 41%
• mid-ocean ridge 21%
• mid-ocean ridge basalt 26%
• mylonitization 8%
• orthopyroxene 6%
• partial melting 5%
• peridotite 18%
• petrogenesis 6%
• plagioclase 16%
• protolith 6%
• pyroxene 24%
• pyroxenite 66%
• rare earth element 5%
• seafloor 5%
• spinel 18%

Chemistry

• Crystalline Texture 13%
• Crystallization 19%
• Fractional Crystallization 37%
• Inductively Coupled Plasm Mass Spectrometry (ICPMS) 13%
• Knorr Synthesis 23%
• Lanthanoid Atom 10%
• Laser Ablation 15%
• Melting 47%
• Pressure 31%
• Spreading 14%