The fate of subducted basaltic crust in the Earth's lower mantle

Nature

Volumn 397, Issue 6714, 1999, Pages 53-56

  Hirose, Kei ^a,b   Fei, Yingwei ^a   Ma, Yanzhang ^a   Mao, Ho Kwang ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE PROCESS; MELTING; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PHASE TRANSITION; SUBDUCTION;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0033531122     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/16225     Document Type: Article

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