The distribution and behaviour of rhenium and osmium amongst mantle minerals and the age of the lithospheric mantle beneath Tanzania

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 183, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 93-106

  Burton, K W ^a,b,e   Schiano, P ^a,b   Birck, J L ^a   Allegre C J ^a   Rehkamper M ^c   Halliday, A N ^c   Dawson, J B ^d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dunite; Isotope ratios; Mantle; Melting; Metasomatism; Mozambique Belt; Re Os; Tazania; Xenoliths

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; MINERALOGY; OSMIUM; RHENIUM;

TANZANIA;

EID: 0034531799     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(00)00259-4     Document Type: Article

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