A review of my mantle petrology: Message to young petrologists

Japanese Magazine of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-11

  Arai, Shoji ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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MANTLE; PETROLOGY;

EID: 77952315703     PISSN: 1345630X     EISSN: 13497979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2465/gkk.39.1     Document Type: Article

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