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Earth and Space Sciences · Glossary

What is Ratio–ratio diagram?

Also known as: ratio--ratio diagram

Definition 12.10 University Earth and Space Sciences — Year 3 · Chapter 12 — Trace-Element Modelling

A ratio–ratio diagram plots, for a suite of lavas, the ratio of a highly incompatible element HH to a less incompatible one MM against the concentration of HH (or against another ratio). Partial melting, crystallisation and mixing draw lines of different shapes on it.

Batch melts of a primitive-mantle source on a La/Yb against La diagram, for a spinel and a garnet lherzolite, with ticks at F = 1, 2, 5, 10 and 20\,\%, and the two invented lavas of the weekend problem. Each lava sits on one curve only.
Batch melts of a primitive-mantle source on a La/Yb against La diagram, for a spinel and a garnet lherzolite, with ticks at F=1F = 1, 2, 5, 10 and 20 %20\,\%, and the two invented lavas of the weekend problem. Each lava sits on one curve only.
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