Chemical composition of Earth's primitive mantle and its variance: 2. Implications for global geodynamics

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Lyubetskaya, Tanya ^a   Korenaga, Jun ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GEODYNAMICS; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; MANTLE CONVECTION; MASS BALANCE; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

EID: 34247143626     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JB004224     Document Type: Article

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