Nature of the Earth's earliest crust from hafnium isotopes in single detrital zircons

Nature

Volumn 399, Issue 6733, 1999, Pages 252-255

  Amelin, Yuri ^a   Lee, Der Chuen ^b   Halliday, Alex N ^c   Pidgeon, Robert T ^d  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAFNIUM; ISOTOPE;

CONTINENTAL CRUST; EARLY EARTH; HAFNIUM; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ZIRCON;

AGE; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GEOLOGY; GREENLAND; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0033587046     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/20426     Document Type: Article

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