Melting in the Earth's deep upper mantle caused by carbon dioxide

Nature

Volumn 440, Issue 7084, 2006, Pages 659-662

  Dasgupta, Rajdeep ^a   Hirschmann, Marc M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; FRACTIONATION; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; HELIUM; RHEOLOGY;

CARBONATED PERIDOTITE; CARBONATITE MELTS; HEAT-PRODUCING ELEMENTS;

MELTING;

ARGON; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; HELIUM; POTASSIUM; THORIUM; URANIUM;

CARBON DIOXIDE; EXTRACTION; MANTLE; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; MELTING; RECRYSTALLIZATION; RHEOLOGY;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE; CRYSTALLIZATION; GEOLOGY; GEOPHYSICS; MANTLE; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 33645456787     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04612     Document Type: Article

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