Helium in the Archean komatiites revisited: Significantly high 3He/4He ratios revealed by fractional crushing gas extraction

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 196, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 213-225

  Matsumoto, Takuya ^a   Seta, Akihiro ^a   Matsuda, Jun ichi ^a   Takebe, Masamichi ^b   Chen, Yuelong ^a,c   Arai, Shoji ^d  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^d KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Archean; Helium; Isotope ratios; Komatiite; Mantle

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; GREENSTONE BELT; HELIUM ISOTOPE; ISOTOPIC RATIO; KOMATIITE; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; MANTLE SOURCE;

CANADA;

EID: 0036257949     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(01)00602-1     Document Type: Article

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