146Sm-142Nd evidence from Isua metamorphosed sediments for early differentiation of the Earth's mantle

Nature

Volumn 423, Issue 6938, 2003, Pages 428-432

  Caro, Guillaume ^a   Bourdon, Bernard ^a   Birck, Jean Louis ^a   Moorbath, Stephen ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPES; NEODYMIUM; SEDIMENTS; SILICATE MINERALS;

MANTLE DIFFERENTIATION;

METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

ISOTOPE; NEODYMIUM; SAMARIUM; SILICATE;

ACCRETION; ARCHEAN; DIFFERENTIATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MANTLE; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; PLANETARY EVOLUTION;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; FRACTIONATION; GEOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ARCHAEA;

EID: 0038146955     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01668     Document Type: Article

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