Prodigious degassing of a billion years of accumulated radiogenic helium at Yellowstone

Nature

Volumn 506, Issue 7488, 2014, Pages 355-358

  Lowenstern, J B ^a   Evans, W C ^a   Bergfeld, D ^a   Hunt, A G ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

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EID: 84894236512     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12992     Document Type: Article

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