Sr and 87Sr/86Sr in rivers draining the Deccan Traps (India): Implications to weathering, Sr fluxes, and the marine 87Sr/86Sr record around K/T

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Das, Anirban ^a,b   Krishnaswami, S ^a   Kumar, Anil ^c  

^a PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c National Geophysical Research Laboratory   (India)

Author keywords

Deccan basalts; Geochemistry; Strontium

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745949397     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GC001081     Document Type: Article

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