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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-1409-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-1409-2019
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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...
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