Growth of early continental crust by partial melting of eclogite

Nature

Volumn 425, Issue 6958, 2003, Pages 605-609

  Rapp, Robert P ^a,d   Shimizu, Nobumichi ^b   Norman, Marc D ^c  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); GRANITE; ROCKS;

PARTIAL MELTING;

GEOCHEMISTRY;

NIOBIUM; SAMARIUM; SODIUM; TANTALUM; ZIRCONIUM DERIVATIVE;

CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; ECLOGITE; PARTIAL MELTING;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; ECLOGITE; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GRANITE; MELTING POINT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; SOIL; SOIL ANALYSIS;

ARCHAEA;

EID: 0142041485     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02031     Document Type: Article

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