Noble gas evidence for a lower mantle component in MORBs from the southern East Pacific Rise: Decoupling of helium and neon isotope systematics

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 61, Issue 13, 1997, Pages 2697-2715

  Niedermann, Samuel ^a   Bach, Wolfgang ^b,c   Erzinger, Jörg ^a,b  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; BASALTS; GEOCHEMISTRY; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE PROCESSES; MANTLE SOURCE; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; MORB; NOBLE GAS; NOBLE GASES; PETROGENESIS;

PACIFIC, EAST PACIFIC RISE;

EID: 0031450539     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7037(97)00102-6     Document Type: Article

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