Earth’s Mantle Geochemistry

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Selected Research Articles:

Mantle geochemistry:  Insights From ocean island basalts          (HUANG and ZHENG, 2017)

http://engine.scichina.com/doi/pdf/28c900b7c05048ed98814ae69659edaa

Whole-mantle convection with tectonic plates preserves long-term global patterns of upper mantle geochemistry (BARRY et al., 2017)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-01816-y

Element partitioning between magnesium silicate perovskites and ferropericlase:  New insights into lower-mantle geochemistry (AUZENDE et al., 2008)

http://james.badro.org/articles/Auzende_2008.pdf

Mantle geochemistry:  the message from oceanic volcanism        (HOFFMANN, 1997)

http://www.mantleplumes.org/WebDocuments/Hofmann1997.pdf

Petrology and Geochemistry of Composite Ultramafic Xenoliths in Alkali Basalts and Implications for Magmatic Processes within the Mantle (IRVING, 1980)

http://earth.geology.yale.edu/~ajs/1980/ajs_280A_1.pdf/389.pdf

Also…

Periodic Table for Mantle Geochemistry  (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

https://www.whoi.edu/cms/files/periodic_table_26613.pdf