Helium solubility in olivine and implications for high 3He/ 4He in ocean island basalts

Nature

Volumn 437, Issue 7062, 2005, Pages 1140-1143

  Parman, Stephen W ^a,c   Kurz, Mark D ^b   Hart, Stanley R ^b   Grove, Timothy L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BASALT; MELTING; OLIVINE; THORIUM; URANIUM;

HELIUM ATMOSPHERE; HELIUM CONCENTRATIONS; HELIUM PARTITIONING; MANTLE RESERVOIR;

HELIUM;

HELIUM; THORIUM; URANIUM;

HELIUM ISOTOPE; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC RATIO; OCEAN ISLAND BASALT; OLIVINE; SOLUBILITY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); MELTING POINT; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLUBILITY;

EID: 27144452548     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04215     Document Type: Article

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