Geochemical tracing of Pacific-to-Atlantic upper-mantle flow through the Drake passage

Nature

Volumn 410, Issue 6827, 2001, Pages 457-461

  Pearce, J A ^a   Leat, P T ^b   Barker, P F ^b   Millar, I L ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAD; LEAD 204; LEAD 208; NEODYMIUM; NEODYMIUM 143; STRONTIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

GEOCHEMICAL SURVEY; MANTLE CONVECTION; PLATE TECTONICS; SUBDUCTION; UPPER MANTLE;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DYNAMICS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGY; INDIAN OCEAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0035932434     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35068542     Document Type: Article

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