Trace-element fractionation in Hadean mantle generated by melt segregation from a magma ocean

Nature

Volumn 436, Issue 7048, 2005, Pages 246-249

  Caro, Guillaume ^a   Bourdon, Bernard ^a   Wood, Bernard J ^b   Corgne, Alexandre ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; CHRONOMETERS; CRYSTALLIZATION; EARTH (PLANET); HAFNIUM; MOLTEN MATERIALS; NEODYMIUM; OCEAN STRUCTURES; ROCKS; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY);

ARCHAEAN ROCKS; CRUSTAL FORMATION PROCESSES; MAGMA OCEAN; TERRESTRIAL ACCRETION;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

MINERAL; TRACE ELEMENT;

ARCHEAN; MANTLE PROCESS;

ARCHEAN; ARTICLE; FRACTIONATION; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HADEAN; LAND BIOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; VOLCANIC ASH; VOLCANO;

EID: 22544433132     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03827     Document Type: Article

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