Volatile element isotopic systematics of the Rodrigues Triple Junction Indian Ocean MORB: Implications for mantle heterogeneity

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 170, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 241-253

  Nishio, Yoshiro ^a   Ishii, Teruaki ^a   Gamo, Toshitaka ^a   Sano, Yuji ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Argon; Carbon; Helium; Indian Ocean; Mid ocean ridge basalts; Nitrogen

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; VESICLE; VOLATILE ELEMENT;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 0033565202     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(99)00113-2     Document Type: Article

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