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Nickel and helium evidence for melt above the core–mantle boundary

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  • Claude Herzberg

    (Rutgers University, 610 Taylor Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-8066, USA)

  • Paul D. Asimow

    (Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology)

  • Dmitri A. Ionov

    (Université J. Monnet (member of PRES Université de Lyon), 23 rue P. Michelon, 42023 Saint-Etienne Cedex 2, France
    Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans, CNRS UMR 6524, 42023 Saint Etienne, France)

  • Chris Vidito

    (Rutgers University, 610 Taylor Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-8066, USA)

  • Matthew G. Jackson

    (Boston University, 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA)

  • Dennis Geist

    (University of Idaho 3022)

Abstract

Several nickel-rich and helium-rich lava samples from ocean islands and large igneous provinces suggest that mantle plume material formed by core–mantle interaction during the crystallization of a melt-rich layer or basal magma ocean.

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  • Claude Herzberg & Paul D. Asimow & Dmitri A. Ionov & Chris Vidito & Matthew G. Jackson & Dennis Geist, 2013. "Nickel and helium evidence for melt above the core–mantle boundary," Nature, Nature, vol. 493(7432), pages 393-397, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:493:y:2013:i:7432:d:10.1038_nature11771
    DOI: 10.1038/nature11771
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    1. Suraj K. Bajgain & Aaron Wolfgang Ashley & Mainak Mookherjee & Dipta B. Ghosh & Bijaya B. Karki, 2022. "Insights into magma ocean dynamics from the transport properties of basaltic melt," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-10, December.

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