A search for 142Nd evidence of primordial mantle heterogeneities in plume basalts

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Boyet, Maud ^a,b   Garcia, Michael O ^c   Pik, Raphaël ^d   Albarède, Francis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d CRPG CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); FRACTIONATION; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; BASALT;

ANALYTICAL UNCERTAINTIES; HOT SPOT BASALTS; LIGHT RARE EARTH ELEMENTS (LREE); MANTLE;

BASALT; NEODYMIUM;

ACCRETION; BASALT; FRACTIONATION; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; MANTLE PLUME; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; PLANETARY EVOLUTION;

ANALYTICAL UNCERTAINTY; DEEP MANTLES; ETHIOPIA; HOT SPOT BASALTS; LIGHT RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; MANTLE HETEROGENEITY; MANTLE SOURCE; TERRESTRIAL ACCRETION;

EID: 19744372489     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021873     Document Type: Article

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