Water and carbon in the Earth's mantle

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 354, Issue 1711, 1996, Pages 1495-1511

  Wood, Bernard J ^a   Pawley, Alison ^a   Frost, Daniel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; GEOCHEMISTRY; MANTLE; MORB; VOLATILE COMPONENT; WATER;

EID: 0030455193     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1996.0060     Document Type: Article

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