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SCIENCE
Volume 319, Issue 5865, Pages 943-945Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1150060
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The canonical model of helium isotope geochemistry describes the lower mantle as undegassed, but this view conflicts with evidence of recycled material in the source of ocean island basalts. Because mantle helium is efficiently extracted by magmatic activity, it cannot remain in fertile mantle rocks for long periods of time. Here, I suggest that helium with high (3)He/(4)He ratios, as well as neon rich in the solar component, diffused early in Earth's history from low- melting- point primordial material into residual refractory reservoir rocks, such as dunites. The difference in (3)He/(4)He ratios of ocean- island and mid- ocean ridge basalts and the preservation of solar neon are ascribed to the reservoir rocks being stretched and tapped to different extents during melting.
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