Thermal and geochemical evolution of the shallow subcontinental lithospheric mantle beneath the Eifel: Constraints from mantle xenoliths, a review

Mantle Plumes: A Multidisciplinary Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 323-337

  Witt Eickschen, Gudrun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-68046-8_9     Document Type: Chapter

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