Constraints on Earth accretion deduced from noble metals in the oceanic mantle

Nature

Volumn 391, Issue 6663, 1998, Pages 166-169

  Snow, Jonathan E ^a   Schmidt, Gerhard ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; IRIDIUM; METAL; OSMIUM; PALLADIUM; PLATINUM; RHENIUM; RHODIUM; RUTHENIUM;

EARTH ACCREATION; MANTLE; MANTLE/CORE SEPARATION; NOBLE METAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GEOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SEDIMENT;

EID: 0032495480     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/34396     Document Type: Article

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