Anomalous xenon in Archean cherts from Pilbara Craton, western Australia

Chemical Geology

Volumn 175, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 387-395

  Pinti, Daniele L ^a   Matsuda, Jun Ichi ^a   Maruyama, Shigenori ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Archean; Barium; Chert; Pilbara; Tellurium; Xenon

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; BARIUM; CHERT; TELLURIUM; XENON;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0034996669     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2541(00)00331-4     Document Type: Article

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