Tracing the Indian Ocean mantle domain through time: isotopic results from old west Indian, east Tethyan, and South Pacific seafloor

Journal of Petrology

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1285-1306

  Mahoney, J J ^a   Frei, R ^b   Tejada, M L G ^a   Mo, X X ^c   Leat, P T ^d   Nagler T F ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c China University of Geosciences   (China)

^d BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MANTLE; OCEANIC CRUST;

EID: 0031696350     PISSN: 00223530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/petroj/39.7.1285     Document Type: Article

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