Cratonic mantle roots, remnants of a more chondritic Archean mantle?

Lithos

Volumn 71, Issue 2-4, 2003, Pages 135-152

  Francis, Don ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Archean; Chondrite; Craton; Lithosphere; Mantle; Root

Indexed keywords

EID: 84999106795     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: 18726143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0024-4937(03)00110-5     Document Type: Article

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