Grain boundaries as reservoirs of incompatible elements in the Earth's mantle

Nature

Volumn 427, Issue 6976, 2004, Pages 699-703

  Hiraga, Takehiko ^a,c   Andeson, Ian M ^b   Kohlstedt, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; CONSTRAINT THEORY; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; IONS; MODAL ANALYSIS; ROCKS; THERMODYNAMICS;

GRAIN INTERIORS; IONIC RADIUS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ALUMINUM; CALCIUM; CHROMIUM; ELEMENT; IRON; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; NICKEL; POTASSIUM; SILICON; TITANIUM;

CALCIUM; GEOCHEMISTRY; GRAIN BOUNDARY; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; OLIVINE; PARTITIONING;

ARTICLE; ENERGY; GEOLOGY; GRAIN; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; THERMODYNAMICS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 1542380345     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02259     Document Type: Article

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