Platinum-bearing chromite layers are caused by pressure reduction during magma ascent

Some basaltic melts become first superheated upon their ascent towards the Earth’s surface and then saturated in chromite alone after cooling in shallow chambers. Here the authors show that large volumes of these chromite-only-saturated melts are responsible for monomineralic layers of massive chrom...

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Main Authors: Rais Latypov, Gelu Costin, Sofya Chistyakova, Emma J. Hunt, Ria Mukherjee, Tony Naldrett
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/134b7f8f95414949a93b6a391e02672f
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