This paper provides new constraints on the crystallization conditions of the 3.49 Ga Barberton komatiites. The compositional evidence from igneous pyroxene ...

Komatiites are rare ultramafic lavas that were produced most commonly during the Archean and Early Proterozoic and less frequently in the Phanerozoic.

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Some estimates for the concentrations of Co and Ni in the primitive mafic component of Apollo 16 breccias and soils are large, comparable to concentrations ...

Experimental melting relations to 20 GPa demonstrate that the commonly accepted model of komatiite formation by non-invariant melting (olivine + liquid) is ...

It follows that picrites and komatiites can erupt through the same crustal sections in which basaltic magmas apparently pond and fractionate. This is surprising ...

Komatiites which originated by partial melting in a lower mantle formed by majorite fractionation should have geochemical characteristics that have not yet been ...