Progressive mixing of meteoritic veneer into the early Earths deep mantle

Nature

Volumn 460, Issue 7255, 2009, Pages 620-623

  Maier, Wolfgang D ^a,b   Barnes, Stephen J ^c   Campbell, Ian H ^d   Fiorentini, Marco L ^b   Peltonen, Petri ^e,f   Barnes, Sarah Jane ^g   Smithies, R Hugh ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À CHICOUTIMI   (Canada)

^h GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLATINUM;

ARC-INFO; ARCHEAN; DIFFERENTIATION; KOMATIITE; LOWER MANTLE; MIXING; VOLCANIC ROCK;

ARCHEAN; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; AUSTRALIA; GEOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEROZOIC; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 68149124557     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08205     Document Type: Article

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