Tungsten isotope evidence that mantle plumes contain no contribution from the Earth's core

Nature

Volumn 427, Issue 6971, 2004, Pages 234-237

  Scherstén, Anders ^a   Elliott, Tim ^a   Hawkesworth, Chris ^a   Norman, Marc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; EARTH (PLANET); ISOTOPES; MELTING; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OSMIUM;

MANTLE PLUMES; OCEAN ISLAND BASALTS;

TUNGSTEN;

OSMIUM; TUNGSTEN;

CORE (PLANETARY); MANTLE PLUME; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; OCEANIC CRUST; OSMIUM ISOTOPE; TUNGSTEN;

ARTICLE; GEOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SOUTH AFRICA;

HAWAIIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE 187;

EID: 1642471779     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02221     Document Type: Article

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