Scale length of mantle heterogeneities: Constraints from helium diffusion

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 269, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 508-517

  Hart, S R ^a   Kurz, M D ^a   Wang, Z ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

diffusion; helium; isotopes

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; EARTH (PLANET); HELIUM; ISOTOPES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DEPLETED UPPER MANTLE; OCEANIC CRUST SLABS;

LITHOLOGY;

DIFFUSION; HELIUM ISOTOPE; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; MELT; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; OCEANIC CRUST; SAMPLING; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SLAB; UPPER MANTLE; VEIN (GEOLOGY);

EID: 43249130605     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.03.010     Document Type: Article

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