Do we really need mantle components to define mantle composition?

Journal of Petrology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 693-709

  Armienti, Pietro ^a   Gasperini, Daniela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Geochemistry; Isotope; Mantle; OIB

Indexed keywords

HOMOGENEITY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; MANTLE SOURCE; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; OCEAN ISLAND BASALT; PARTIAL MELTING; UPPER MANTLE;

EID: 34047110265     PISSN: 00223530     EISSN: 14602415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/petrology/egl078     Document Type: Article

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