Early history of Earth's crust-mantle system inferred from hafnium isotopes in chondrites

Nature

Volumn 421, Issue 6926, 2003, Pages 931-933

  Bizzarro, Martin ^a,b   Baker, Joel A ^b   Haack, Henning ^a   Ulfbeck, David ^b   Rosing, Minik ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b DANISH LITHOSPHERE CENTRE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAFNIUM; ISOTOPES; RADIOACTIVITY;

RADIOACTIVE DECAY CONSTANT;

EARTH (PLANET);

HAFNIUM; LUTETIUM; MINERAL; ZIRCONIUM;

CHONDRITE; CRUST; EARLY EARTH; HAFNIUM; MANTLE; MANTLE SOURCE;

AGE; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BASALT; CALIBRATION; GEOLOGY; HISTORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOISOTOPE DECAY;

EID: 0037468174     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01421     Document Type: Article

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