Abstract
Some mantle plumes are enriched in 3He, but the source of this primordial isotope is unclear. The partitioning behaviour of helium between silicate and iron melts—as determined by experiments—suggests that sufficient helium may have been incorporated into the core when the Earth differentiated to explain the anomalous leakage at the Earth’s surface.
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