Carbon-dioxide-rich silicate melt in the Earth's upper mantle

Nature

Volumn 493, Issue 7431, 2013, Pages 211-215

  Dasgupta, Rajdeep ^a   Mallik, Ananya ^a   Tsuno, Kyusei ^a   Withers, Anthony C ^b   Hirth, Greg ^c   Hirschmann, Marc M ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; MINERAL; PERIDOTITE; SILICATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

CARBON DIOXIDE; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; MELTING; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; PERIDOTITE; SILICATE MELT; THERMAL EVOLUTION; UPPER MANTLE; UPWELLING;

ARTICLE; EARTH MANTLE; GEOLOGY; MELTING POINT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84872159860     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11731     Document Type: Article

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