Perspectives from global modeling of terrestrial Pb and Nd isotopes on the history of the continental crust

Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 169-174

  Kramers, Jan D ^a   Nägler, Thomas F ^a   Tolstikhin, Igor N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Continental crust; Earth accretion; Isotope; Modeling; Nd; Pb; Recycling rate

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL CRUST; EARTH ACCRETION; ISOTOPE;

EID: 0031853783     PISSN: 00367699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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