Helium deficit in high-3He/4He parent magmas: Predegassing fractionation, not a "helium paradox"

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Hopp, Jens ^a   Trieloff, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Binary mixing; Crystal melt partitioning; Helium paradox; Noble gas isotopes

Indexed keywords

EID: 63149135924     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GC001833     Document Type: Article

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