Highly siderophile elements (PGE, Re and Au) in mantle xenoliths from the West Eifel volcanic field (Germany)

Chemical Geology

Volumn 196, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 77-105

  Schmidt, Gerhard ^a,b   Witt Eickschen, Gudrun ^a   Palme, Herbert ^a   Seck, Hans ^a   Spettel, Bernhard ^c   Kratz, Karl Ludwig ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

As; Eifel; Highly siderophile elements; Mantle metasomatism; PGE; Xenoliths

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GEOCHEMISTRY; MANTLE; METASOMATISM; PERIDOTITE; SIDEROPHILE ELEMENT; VOLCANISM; XENOLITH;

EIFEL; GERMANY; RHINELAND-PALATINATE;

EID: 0037447927     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2541(02)00408-4     Document Type: Article

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