Trace element composition of mantle end-members: Implications for recycling of oceanic and upper and lower continental crust

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Willbold, Matthias ^a   Stracke, Andreas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lower continental crust; Mantle heterogeneity; Marine sediments; Radiogenic isotopes; Subduction erosion; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248653653     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GC001005     Document Type: Article

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