Unradiogenic lead in Earth's upper mantle

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 570-573

  Burton, Kevin W ^a,b   Cenki Tok, Bénédicte ^a,c   Mokadem, Fatima ^a,d   Harvey, Jason ^a,e   Gannoun, Abdelmouhcine ^a,f   Alard, Olivier ^a,c   Parkinson, Ian J ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABYSSAL ZONE; CONTINENTAL CRUST; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LEAD; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; METEORITE; SEAFLOOR; SILICATE; SOLAR SYSTEM; UPPER MANTLE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; JAPAN;

EID: 84864569288     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1531     Document Type: Review

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