Mantle studies

J. N. Ludden; D. Francis

Mantle studies

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Convection in the Earth's mantle provides the driving force for plate-tectonic processes and the heat source for fluid transport in the Earth's crust. Understanding the relationships between mantle composition and convection and its interaction with continental and oceanic crust provide a major challenge to modern petrologists and geochemists. This challenge can only be resolved by indirect studies, such as tomography and geochemical inversions on mantle-derived products, or by direct studies on rarely sampled upper mantle products in mantle xenolith suites and the barely accessible in situ outcrops of mantle in oceanic fracture zones. -Authors

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	95-100
Number of pages	6
Journal	Geoscience Canada
Volume	20
Issue number	3
Publication status	Published - 1993

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Ludden, J. N., & Francis, D. (1993). Mantle studies. Geoscience Canada, 20(3), 95-100.

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