Mechanisms of Earth differentiation: Consequences for the chemical structure of the mantle

Reviews of Geophysics

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 337-361

  Carlson, Richard W ^a  

^a NONE

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CORE FORMATION; DIFFERENTIATION; MANTLE; PLATE TECTONICS;

EID: 0028573551     PISSN: 87551209     EISSN: 19449208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/94RG01874     Document Type: Review

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