Helium Isotopic Evidence for a Lower Mantle Component in Depleted Archean Komatiite

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Jul 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996sci...273...93r&link_type=abstract

Science, Volume 273, Issue 5271, pp. 93-95

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Archean magnesium-rich komatiites require hot and presumably deep mantle sources, but their trace-element composition and radiogenic isotope composition are similar to those of modern mid-ocean ridge basalts, which originate in the upper mantle. The isotopic composition of helium extracted by sequential crushing of fresh olivines separated from two Archean and one mid-Proterozoic komatiites varies over three orders of magnitude, between a radiogenic end-member rich in helium-4 and a component rich in helium-3. Such helium-3 enrichment suggests the presence of a lower mantle component in Archean komatiites.

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