Preservation of ancient and fertile lithospheric mantle beneath the southwestern United States

Nature

Volumn 411, Issue 6833, 2001, Pages 69-73

  Lee, Cin Ty ^a,b   Yin, Qingzhu ^a   Rudnick, Roberta L ^a,c   Jacobsen, Stein B ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; RECYCLING; TECTONICS;

THERMAL BOUNDARY LAYERS;

GEOLOGY;

ISOTOPE; MINERAL; OSMIUM;

ARCHEAN; CORDILLERA; CRATON; GEOCHEMISTRY; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; PARTIAL MELTING; STABILIZATION; STRENGTH;

ARTICLE; BOUNDARY LAYER; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DENSITY; GEOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL; THICKNESS; TOPOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES;

NORTH AMERICA;

ARCHAEA;

EID: 0035799576     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35075048     Document Type: Article

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