Nd and Pb isotopes from the Lake of the Woods greenstone belt, northwestern Ontario implications for mantle evolution and the formation of crust in the southern Superior Province

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1677-1689

  Ayer, John A ^a   Dostal, Jaroslav ^b  

^a Ontario Geological Survey   (Canada)

^b SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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