Extreme crustal oxygen isotope signatures preserved in coesite in diamond

Nature

Volumn 423, Issue 6935, 2003, Pages 68-70

  Schulze, Daniel J ^a   Harte, Ben ^b   Valley, John W ^c   Brenan, James M ^a   Channer, Dominic M De R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d Guaniamo Mining Company   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; DIAMONDS; ECOLOGY; OXYGEN; SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY;

LITHOSPHERE;

ISOTOPES;

DIAMOND; ISOTOPE; MINERAL; OXYGEN; SILICON DIOXIDE;

COESITE; DIAMOND; ECLOGITE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; XENOLITH;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; MASS SPECTROMETER; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; SEA;

EID: 0038393306     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01615     Document Type: Article

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