Ion microprobe analysis of graphite from ca. 3.8 Ga metasediments, Isua supracrustal belt, West Greenland: Relationship between metamorphism and carbon isotopic composition

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1257-1268

  Ueno, Yuichiro ^a   Yurimoto, Hisayoshi ^a   Yoshioka, Hideyoshi ^b   Komiya, Tsuyoshi ^a   Maruyama, Shigenori ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; CARBON ISOTOPE; FRACTIONATION; GRAPHITE; METAMORPHISM; METASEDIMENT; ORIGIN OF LIFE;

GREENLAND;

EID: 0036117527     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7037(01)00840-7     Document Type: Article

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