A deep mantle origin for the primitive signature of ocean island basalt

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 879-882

  Deschamps, Frédéric ^a   Kaminski, Edouard ^b   Tackley, Paul J ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGASSING; HETEROGENEITY; MANTLE PLUME; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEAN ISLAND BASALT; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; SEISMOLOGY; VOLCANIC ROCK;

EID: 82455163871     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1295     Document Type: Article

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