Cosmochemical Estimates of Mantle Composition

Treatise on Geochemistry

Volumn 2-9, Issue , 2007, Pages 1-38

  Palme, H ^a   O'Neill, H St C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METEORITES; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

BULK COMPOSITIONS; CARBONACEOUS CHONDRITES; CHONDRITIC METEORITES; COMPOSITION OF THE EARTH; IRON ATOMS; MAGNESIUM ATOM; MAGNESIUM SILICON; MANTLE COMPOSITION; SILICON ATOMS; VOLATILE ELEMENTS;

MANGANESE;

EID: 84875834603     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B0-08-043751-6/02177-0     Document Type: Chapter

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