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The Mantle and Core: Treatise on Geochemistry, Volume 2

Carlson, R.W.

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Table of contents
  • Cover
  • Contentsvii
  • Executive Editors' Forwordix
  • Contributors to Volume 2xiii
  • Volume Editor's Introductionxv
  • Chapter 1. 2.01 Cosmochemical Estimates of Mantle Composition1
  • Chapter 2. 2.02 Seismological Constraints upon Mantle Composition39
  • Chapter 3. 2.03 Sampling Mantle Heterogeneity through Oceanic Basalts: Isotopes and Trace Elements61
  • Chapter 4. 2.04 Orogenic, Ophiolitic, and Abyssal Peridotites103
  • Chapter 5. 2.05 Mantle Samples Included in Volcanic Rocks: Xenoliths and Diamonds171
  • Chapter 6. 2.06 Noble Gases as Mantle Tracers277
  • Chapter 7. 2.07 Mantle Volatiles„Distribution and Consequences319
  • Chapter 8. 2.08 Melt Extraction and Compositional Variability in Mantle Lithosphere363
  • Chapter 9. 2.09 Trace Element Partitioning under Crustal and Uppermost Mantle Conditions: The Influe395
  • Chapter 10. 2.10 Partition Coefficients at High Pressure and Temperature425
  • Chapter 11. 2.11 Subduction Zone Processes and Implications for Changing Composition of the Upper an451
  • Chapter 12. 2.12 Convective Mixing in the Earth's Mantle471
  • Chapter 13. 2.13 Compositional Evolution of the Mantle493
  • Chapter 14. 2.14 Experimental Constraints on Core Composition521
  • Chapter 15. 2.15 Compositional Model for the Earth's Core547
  • Subject Index569
Book details
  • Vendor Elsevier S & T
  • SKU 9780080448480
  • ISBN-13 9780080549019
  • Author Carlson, R.W.
  • Edition 2nd
  • Category Science
  • Subject Astrophysics

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Though largely inaccessible, the geochemistry of Earth's mantle and core can be examined through a wide variety of approaches. Volume 2 focuses first on "remote" sensing using evidence from cosmochemical, seismic, petrologic and geochemical approaches. Mantle composition is then examined in detail through descriptions of mantle samples brought to Earth's surface through tectonic, volcanic, and volatile-outgassing processes. The volume concludes with examination of processes that modify the composition of the mantle and core including an early magma ocean, partial melting, element partitioning between minerals and melts, and physical mixing caused by plate subduction, mantle convection and mass exchange between mantle and core.



Reprinted individual volume from the acclaimed Treatise on Geochemistry,
(10 Volume Set, ISBN 0-08-043751-6, published in 2003)

* Comprehensive and authoritative scope and focus
* Reviews from renowned scientists across a range of subjects, providing both overviews and new data, supplemented by extensive bibliographies
* Extensive illustrations and examples from the field