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Relationships between chemical and convective layering in the Earth

William Smith Lecture

Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, UK

This review principally addresses the question of convective isolation is the Earth's mantle as deduced from chemical and isotopic data. In particular it is shown that the isolation is imperfect and the interactions that occur account for a variety of geochemical phenomena.

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