Whole-mantle convection and the transition-zone water filter

Nature

Volumn 425, Issue 6953, 2003, Pages 39-44

  Bercovici, David ^a   Karato, Shun Ichiro ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; CONSTRAINT THEORY; FILTERS (FOR FLUIDS); LANDFORMS; MELTING; SOLUBILITY;

RIDGES;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

WATER;

GEOCHEMISTRY; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; OCEAN ISLAND BASALT; TRANSITION ZONE; WATER CONTENT;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BASALT; FILTER; FILTRATION; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GEOCHEMISTRY; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID STATE; SOLUBILITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

ARCHAEA;

EID: 0041408300     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01918     Document Type: Article

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