Meteorite Kr in earth's mantle suggests a late accretionary source for the atmosphere

Science

Volumn 326, Issue 5959, 2009, Pages 1522-1525

  Holland, Greg ^a   Cassidy, Martin ^b   Ballentine, Chris J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KRYPTON; TRACER; XENON;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CARBONACEOUS CHONDRITE; DEGASSING; ISOTOPE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; METEORITE; NOBLE GAS; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; SAMPLING; SOLID EARTH; TRACER; VOLATILE ELEMENT;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; CONTROLLED STUDY; PRECAMBRIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SOLID;

EID: 72149103041     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1179518     Document Type: Article

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33. We thank Oxy and Amerada Hess corporations for permission to sample the Bravo Dome Field. We thank D. Blagburn and B. Clementson for laboratory support and R. Pepin for discussions on the manuscript. This work was funded by UK Natural Environment Research Council.