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Originally published in Science Express on 29 March 2007
Science 20 April 2007:
Vol. 316. no. 5823, pp. 378 - 379
DOI: 10.1126/science. 1141051
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GEOCHEMISTRY:
Food for a Volcanic Diet

Claude Herzberg

Chemical analyses of lava can now reveal the nature of the rocks deep in the Earth that melted and rose to generate specific volcanoes.

The author is in the Department of Geological Sciences, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA. E-mail: herzberg{at}rci.rutgers.edu

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