High abundances of noble gas and chlorine delivered to the mantle by serpentinite subduction

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 807-812

  Kendrick, Mark A ^a   Scambelluri, Marco ^b   Honda, Masahiko ^c   Phillips, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEHYDRATION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MANTLE; METAMORPHISM; MINERAL; NOBLE GAS; SEAFLOOR; SEAWATER; SERPENTINITE; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

ALPS; ITALY; LIGURIAN ALPS; WESTERN ALPS;

EID: 80052731068     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1270     Document Type: Article

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