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

Claude Herzberg (), Paul D. Asimow, Dmitri A. Ionov, Chris Vidito, Matthew G. Jackson and Dennis Geist
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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
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

Nature, 2013, vol. 493, issue 7432, 393-397

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.

Date: 2013
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