Constance M. Bertka 1'2. and John R. Holloway a'3. 1 Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, USA. 2 Department of Geology, Arizona ...
Contrib Mineral Petrol (1994) 115:313-322
Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 9 Springer-Verlag 1994
Anhydrous partial melting of an iron-rich mantle I: subsolidus phase assemblages and partial melting phase relations at 10 to 30 kbar Constance M. Bertka 1'2. and John R. Holloway a'3
1 GeophysicalLaboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, USA 2 Department of Geology,Arizona State University,USA 3 Department of Chemistry,Arizona State University,USA Received May 21, 1992 / Accepted April 15, 1993
Abstract. Anhydrous partial melting experiments, at 10
to 30 kbar from solidus to near liquidus temperature, have been performed on an iron-rich martian mantle composition, DW. The DW subsolidus assemblage from _