REE abundances in ancient seawater inferred from marine limestone and experimental REE partition coefficients between calcite and aqueous solution

Geochemical Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 425-435

  Tanaka, Kazuya ^a,b   Kawabe, Iwao ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbonate complex; Marine limestone; Partition coefficient; Rare earth element; Tetrad effect

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; CALCITE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; FRACTIONATION; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; LIMESTONE; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SEAWATER; SUPERSATURATION;

EID: 33751380932     PISSN: 00167002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2343/geochemj.40.425     Document Type: Article

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