Re-Os systematics of mantle xenoliths from the East African Rift: Age, structure, and history of the Tanzanian craton

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 63, Issue 7-8, 1999, Pages 1203-1217

  Chesley, John T ^a   Rudnick, Roberta L ^b   Lee, Cin Ty ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; CRATON; DELAMINATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; MANTLE PROCESS; RHENIUM-OSMIUM DATING; XENOLITH;

TANZANIA;

EID: 0032845780     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7037(99)00004-6     Document Type: Article

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