Diamonds sampled by plumes from the core-mantle boundary

Nature

Volumn 466, Issue 7304, 2010, Pages 352-355

  Torsvik, Trond H ^a,b,c   Burke, Kevin ^c,d   Steinberger, Bernhard ^a,b,e   Webb, Susan J ^c   Ashwal, Lewis D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^e GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAMOND;

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; CRATON; DIAMOND; HIGH PRESSURE; KIMBERLITE; MANTLE PLUME; METASOMATIC ROCK; RECONSTRUCTION; TECTONIC PLATE; VOLCANIC ROCK;

ARTICLE; CAMBRIAN; DEVONIAN; EARTHQUAKE; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOLOGY; JURASSIC; KIMBERLITE; MOLECULAR STABILITY; PHANEROZOIC; PLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK;

EID: 77954639714     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09216     Document Type: Article

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