Stability of carbonated magmas at the base of the Earth's upper mantle

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 22, 2007, Pages

  Ghosh, Sujoy ^a   Ohtani, Eiji ^a   Litasov, Konstantin ^a   Suzuki, Akio ^a   Sakamaki, Tatsuya ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; DENSITY MEASUREMENT (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); DIAMONDS; EQUATIONS OF STATE; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

ISOTHERMAL BULK MODULUS; MAGMAS;

VOLCANIC ROCKS;

BULK MODULUS; CARBON DIOXIDE; DENSITY; EQUATION OF STATE; MAGMA; UPPER MANTLE;

EID: 38949151925     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031349     Document Type: Article

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