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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-1409-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-1409-2019
Research article
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28 Aug 2019
Research article |  | 28 Aug 2019

Chemical heterogeneities in the mantle: progress towards a general quantitative description

Massimiliano Tirone

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The prevalent assumption in solid Earth science is that if we have different lithologies in the mantle they are separately in chemical equilibrium and together in chemical disequilibrium; this is the condition that at the moment defines a chemically heterogeneous mantle. The main contribution of this study is to show that this may not be the case. We can have (partial) chemical equilibration between the two and still observe a chemically heterogeneous mantle.