KD Putirka, M Perfit, FJ Ryerson, MG Jackson - Chemical Geology, 2007 - Elsevier

Ambient and excess mantle temperatures, olivine thermometry, and active vs. passive upwelling.

Jackson, Perfit, Ryerson

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Abstract

Mantle temperatures provide a key test of the mantle plume hypothesis, and olivine-liquid equilibria provide perhaps the most certain means of estimating mantle temperatures. Here …