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Vesicles and included CO2are enriched in deep-sea basalts that are also enriched in light rare earth and incompatible elements. This enrichment probably results from a unique deep mantle origin of such melts but may have been modified by CO2 bubbles rising in shallow magma chambers.
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Moore, J. Vesicularity and CO2 in mid-ocean ridge basalt. Nature 282, 250–253 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1038/282250a0
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