Electrical conductivity during incipient melting in the oceanic low-velocity zone

Nature

Volumn 508, Issue 7498, 2014, Pages 81-85

  Sifré, David ^a,b,c   Gardés, Emmanuel ^a,b,c,d   Massuyeau, Malcolm ^a,b,c   Hashim, Leila ^a,b,c   Hier Majumder, Saswata ^a,b,c,e,f   Gaillard, Fabrice ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UMR 7327   (France)

^d Direction de la Recherche Fondamentale   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; WATER;

ARTICLE; ASTHENOSPHERE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; MELTING POINT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OZONE LAYER; PETROLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VELOCITY;

EID: 84899765670     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13245     Document Type: Article

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