142Nd evidence for early Earth differentiation

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 214, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 427-442

  Boyet, Maud ^a   Blichert Toft, Janne ^a   Rosing, Minik ^b   Storey, Michael ^c   Télouk, Philippe ^a   Albarède, Francis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c DANISH LITHOSPHERE CENTRE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Early Earth differentiation; Isua metabasalts; Lu Hf isotopes; Multiple collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry; Nd 142 anomaly; Sm Nd isotopes

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; DIFFERENTIATION; EARLY EARTH; GEODYNAMICS; MANTLE; METABASALT; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; SUPRACRUSTAL ROCK;

GREENLAND; WEST GREENLAND;

EID: 0141631741     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00423-0     Document Type: Article

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