On the overabundance of light rare earth elements in terrestrial zircons and its implication for Earth's earliest magmatic differentiation

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 204, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 333-346

  Whitehouse, Martin J ^a   Kamber, Balz S ^b  

^a SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Archaean; Distribution coefficients; Greenland; Hadean; Lanthanides; Zircon

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ARCHEAN; GNEISS; MAGMATIC DIFFERENTIATION; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; ZIRCON;

GREENLAND;

EID: 0037114507     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(02)01000-2     Document Type: Article

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