Partitioning of trace amounts of highly siderophile elements in the Fe-Ni-S system and their fractionation in nature

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 63, Issue 17, 1999, Pages 2611-2622

  Fleet, M E ^a   Liu, Menghua ^a   Crocket, J H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTIONATION; OCEAN ISLAND BASALT; PARTITIONING; SIDEROPHILE ELEMENT;

EID: 0033398743     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7037(99)00112-X     Document Type: Article

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