LHERZOLITE, ANORTHOSITE, GABBRO, AND BASALT DRDGED FROM MID-INDIAN OCEAN RIDGE

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ENGEL, CG
FISHER, RL
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[1] U.S. Geological Survey, San Diego
[2] Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, San Diego
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10.1126/science.166.3909.1136
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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The Central Indian Ridge is mantled with flows of low-potassium basalt of uniform composition. Gabbro, anorthosite, and garnet-bearing lherzolite are exposed in cross fractures, and lherzolite is the bedrock at the center of the ridge. The lherzolites are upper-mantle rock exposed by faulting.
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