Concepedia

Water–rock interactions, orthopyroxene growth, and Si-enrichment in the mantle: evidence in xenoliths from the Colorado Plateau, southwestern United States

Douglas Smith, J. C. Alexis Riter, Stanley A. Mertzman

Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 1999 · 110 citations · 29 references

DOI

Concepts

References

29

The Abundances of Major, Minor and Trace Elements in the Earth's Mantle as Derived from Primitive Ultramafic Nodules

E. Jagoutz, H. Palme, H. Baddenhausen et al. · Lunar and Planetary Science Conference Proceedings · 1979 · 801 citations

, , +7

Constraints on the composition of the continental lithospheric mantle

W. F. McDonough · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 1990 · 726 citations

, , +5

Compositional distinction between oceanic and cratonic lithosphere

F. R. Boyd · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 1989 · 694 citations

, , +4

Formation of harzburgite by pervasive melt/rock reaction in the upper mantle

P. B. Kelemen, H. J. Dick, James E. Quick · Nature · 1992 · 672 citations

, , +6

Melting of mantle peridotite at pressures approaching the spinel to garnet transition: Application to mid‐ocean ridge basalt petrogenesis

Rosamond J. Kinzler · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1997 · 573 citations

, , +15