The continental lithospheric mantle: Characteristics and significance as a mantle reservoir

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 360, Issue 1800, 2002, Pages 2383-2410

  Pearson, D G ^a   Nowell, G M ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Craton; Hafnium isotopes; Isotope geochemistry; Lithosphere; Trace element geochemistry

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPE; MINERAL;

ASTRONOMY; CONFERENCE PAPER; GEOLOGY; SEDIMENT; VOLCANO;

EARTH (PLANET); EVOLUTION, CHEMICAL; EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; MINERALS; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

EID: 0037111739     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2002.1074     Document Type: Conference Paper

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