Two terrestrial lead isotope paradoxes, forward transport modelling, core formation and the history of the continental crust

Chemical Geology

Volumn 139, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 75-110

  Kramers, Jan D ^a   Tolstikhin, Igor N ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b CRPG CNRS   (France)

^c GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Core formation; Crustal growth; Earth accretion; Earth history; Lead isotopes

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL CRUST; CORE FORMATION; CRUSTAL GROWTH; EARTH ACCRETION; LEAD ISOTOPE;

EID: 0030823030     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2541(97)00027-2     Document Type: Article

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