Evidence for recycled Archaean oceanic mantle lithosphere in the Azores plume

Nature

Volumn 420, Issue 6913, 2002, Pages 304-307

  Schaefer, Bruce F ^a   Turner, Simon ^b   Parkinson, Ian ^a   Rogers, Nick ^a   Hawkesworth, Chris ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE;

BASALT; IRON; ISOTOPES; OCEANOGRAPHY; OSMIUM;

THERMAL PLUMES;

ISOTOPE; OSMIUM; RHENIUM;

ARCHEAN; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; MANTLE CONVECTION; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; OCEAN ISLAND BASALT; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; OSMIUM ISOTOPE; RECYCLING; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; BASALT; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; MODEL; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECYCLING; THERMODYNAMICS;

ARCHAEA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE 187;

EID: 2242467564     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01172     Document Type: Article

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