CaSiO3 perovskite in diamond indicates the recycling of oceanic crust into the lower mantle

The composition of natural calcium silicate perovskite, the fourth most abundant mineral in the Earth, found within a diamond indicates an origin from oceanic crust subducted deeper than 700 kilometres into the Earth’s mantle. Rock recycling revealed in a diamond Within the Earth's transition z...

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Published in:Nature (London) 2018-03, Vol.555 (7695), p.237-241
Main Authors: Nestola, F., Korolev, N., Kopylova, M., Rotiroti, N., Pearson, D. G., Pamato, M. G., Alvaro, M., Peruzzo, L., Gurney, J. J., Moore, A. E., Davidson, J.
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Language:English
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Calcium silicate
Crust (Geology)
Humanities and Social Sciences
letter
Mantle (Geology)
multidisciplinary
Natural history
Perovskite
Science
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