The Li isotopic composition of Oldoinyo Lengai: Nature of the mantle sources and lack of isotopic fractionation during carbonatite petrogenesis

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 254, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 77-89

  Halama, Ralf ^a   McDonough, William F ^a   Rudnick, Roberta L ^a   Keller, Jörg ^b   Klaudius, Jurgis ^b  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbonatites; Lithium isotopes; Mantle geochemistry; Oldoinyo Lengai

Indexed keywords

CARBONATITES; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; MANTLE GEOCHEMISTRY;

GEOCHEMISTRY; IGNEOUS ROCKS; LITHIUM; MINERALOGY; OLIVINE; PETROLOGY;

VOLCANOES;

CARBONATITE; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; IMMISCIBILITY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; LITHIUM; MAGMATIC DIFFERENTIATION; MANTLE SOURCE; PETROGENESIS;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; OLDOINYO LENGAI; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TANZANIA;

EID: 33846292619     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.11.022     Document Type: Article

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