Table of Contents

Introduction and Overview
1. Cosmochemical Estimates of Mantle Composition
2. Seismology Constraints upon Mantle Composition
3. Sampling Mantle Heterogeneity through Oceanic Basalts: Isotopes and Trace Elements
4. Orogenic, Ophiolitic, and Abyssal Peridotites
5. Mantle Samples Included in Volcanic Rocks: Xenoliths and Diamonds
6. Noble Gases as Mantle Tracers
7. Mantle Volatiles - Distribution and Consequences
8. Melt Extraction and Compositional Variability in Mantle Lithosphere
9. Trace Element Partitioning under Crystal and Uppermost Mantle Conditions: The Influences of Ionic Radius, Cation Charge, Pressure and Temperature
10. Partition Coefficients at High Pressure and Temperature
11. Subduction Zone Processes and Implications for Changing Composition of the Upper and Lower Mantle
12. Convective Mixing in the Earth's Mantle
13. Compositional Evolution of the Mantle
14. Experimental Constraints on Core Composition
15. Compositional Models for the Earth's Core

Reviews

C. Ballhaus ...Volume 2 on the mantle and the core will be a rich source of data, concepts, and ideas indispensible for any graduate and postgraduate researcher in the field of mantle petrology.