FIGURE 4. Correlation between Re/Os ratios and bulk Al2O3 contents.

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Ancient, highly heterogeneous mantle beneath Gakkel ridge, Arctic Ocean

Chuan-Zhou Liu, Jonathan E. Snow, Eric Hellebrand, Gerhard Brügmann, Anette von der Handt, Anette Büchl & Albrecht W. Hofmann

Nature 452, 311-316(20 March 2008)

doi:10.1038/nature06688

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All fresh interiors but one (238-4) show good positive correlation. The absence of such a relationship in both D70 samples and the altered rims of PS66-238 samples indicate the disturbance of Re during seawater alteration.

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