Fig. 5: Mineral-melt partition coefficients of lithium obtained from the partial melting and crystallisation experiments (red circles and box plots).
From: Experimental constraints on the sources of lithium-rich granites and pegmatites
The range of partition coefficients from natural samples10,44,45,46,47,48 and from previous experimental studies in felsic systems16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23 are indicated by the orange box and the blue circles, respectively. The box plots highlight the median (centre line), upper and lower quartiles (box limits), and the maximum and minimum values within 1.5× the interquartile range (whiskers) from the experimental partition coefficients obtained in this study. Mineral abbreviations are reported in Fig. 3. ‘n’ denotes the number of analyses.
