Rare earth element variations in mid-Archean banded iron formations: Implications for the chemistry of ocean and continent and plate tectonics

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 62, Issue 21-22, 1998, Pages 3475-3497

  Kato, Yasuhiro ^a,b   Ohta, Izumi ^a   Tsunematsu, Tomoki ^a   Watanabe, Yoshio ^c   Isozaki, Yukio ^d   Maruyama, Shigenori ^d   Imai, Noboru ^c  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^d TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; BANDED IRON FORMATION; CONTINENTAL CRUST; OCEANIC CRUST; PLATE TECTONICS; RARE EARTH ELEMENT;

EID: 0032469725     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0016-7037(98)00253-1     Document Type: Article

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