Thermochemical regime of the early mantle inferred from numerical models of the coupled magmatism-mantle convection system with the solid-solid phase transitions at depths around 660 km

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 103, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 12161-12180

  Ogawa, Masaki ^a   Nakamura, Hidenori ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGMATISM; MANTLE CONVECTION; THERMOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 0032503469     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98jb00611     Document Type: Article

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