Distribution of recycled crust within the upper mantle: Insights from the oxygen isotope composition of MORB from the Australian-Antarctic discordance

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Cooper, Kari M ^a   Eiler, John M ^b   Sims, Kenneth W W ^c,d   Langmuir, Charles H ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geochemical modeling; Mantle geochemistry; Oxygen isotopes

Indexed keywords

EID: 76149120429     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GC002728     Document Type: Article

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