Komatiites reveal a hydrous Archaean deep-mantle reservoir

Alexander V. Sobolev (), Evgeny V. Asafov, Andrey A. Gurenko, Nicholas T. Arndt, Valentina G. Batanova, Maxim V. Portnyagin, Dieter Garbe-Schönberg and Stepan P. Krasheninnikov
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Alexander V. Sobolev: Université Grenoble Alpes, Institute Science de la Terre (ISTerre), CNRS
Evgeny V. Asafov: Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 19 ul.
Andrey A. Gurenko: Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques (CRPG), UMR 7358, Université de Lorraine
Nicholas T. Arndt: Université Grenoble Alpes, Institute Science de la Terre (ISTerre), CNRS
Valentina G. Batanova: Université Grenoble Alpes, Institute Science de la Terre (ISTerre), CNRS
Maxim V. Portnyagin: Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 19 ul.
Dieter Garbe-Schönberg: CAU Kiel University, Institute of Geosciences, Ludewig-Meyn-Strasse 10
Stepan P. Krasheninnikov: Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 19 ul.

Nature, 2016, vol. 531, issue 7596, 628-632

Abstract: Archaean komatiites are shown to originate in hot mantle plumes that entrained hydrous material from deep in the mantle.

Date: 2016
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