Re-Os systematics of komatiites and komatiitic basalts at Dundonald Beach, Ontario, Canada: Evidence for a complex alteration history and implications of a late-Archean chondritic mantle source

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 69, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 5087-5098

  Gangopadhyay, Amitava ^a,c   Sproule, Rebecca A ^b   Walker, Richard J ^a   Lesher, C Michael ^b  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; KOMATIITE; MINERAL ALTERATION; RHENIUM-OSMIUM DATING;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 28344450826     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2005.04.021     Document Type: Article

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