The importance of water to oceanic mantle melting regimes

Nature

Volumn 421, Issue 6925, 2003, Pages 815-820

  Asimow, P D ^a   Langmuir, C H ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MELTING; TRACE ELEMENTS; WATER;

MAGMA SOURCE PARAMETERS; OCEANIC MANTLE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

WATER;

CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DIFFERENTIATION; MAGMA; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; TRACE ELEMENT; UPPER MANTLE; WATER;

ARTICLE; FRACTIONATION; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GEOCHEMISTRY; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; VOLCANO;

EID: 0037456395     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01429     Document Type: Article

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