Melting of the Earth's lithospheric mantle inferred from protactinium- thorium-uranium isotopic data

Nature

Volumn 406, Issue 6793, 2000, Pages 293-296

  Asmerom, Yemane ^a   Cheng, Hai ^b   Thomas, Rebecca ^b   Hirschmann, Marc ^b   Edwards, R Lawrence ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPE; PROTACTINIUM; THORIUM; URANIUM;

DEPTH DETERMINATION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE; MELTING; URANIUM;

ARTICLE; GEOLOGY; HALF LIFE TIME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOISOTOPE DECAY; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0034691561     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35018550     Document Type: Article

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