Evidence for the survival of the oldest terrestrial mantle reservoir

Nature

Volumn 466, Issue 7308, 2010, Pages 853-856

  Jackson, Matthew G ^a,b   Carlson, Richard W ^b   Kurz, Mark D ^c   Kempton, Pamela D ^d   Francis, Don ^e   Blusztajn, Jerzy ^c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELIUM; ISOTOPE; LEAD; NEODYMIUM;

CENOZOIC; DEGASSING; HELIUM; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LEAD; MANTLE STRUCTURE; SURVIVAL; TRACER; VOLCANISM;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CENOZOIC; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGY; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); MANTLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOLCANO;

ARCTIC; BAFFIN ISLAND; CANADA; GREENLAND; NUNAVUT; WEST GREENLAND;

EID: 77955597699     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09287     Document Type: Article

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