Chemical characterization of earth's most ancient clastic metasediments from the Isua Greenstone Belt, southern West Greenland

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1555-1573

  Bolhar, Robert ^a   Kamber, Balz S ^a   Moorbath, Stephen ^b   Whitehouse, Martin J ^c   Collerson, Kenneth D ^a  

^a ACQUIRE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; GEOCHEMISTRY; GREENSTONE; METASEDIMENT;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; GREENLAND; WORLD;

EID: 15844406552     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2004.09.023     Document Type: Article

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