Hf-Nd-Pb isotope evidence from Permian arc rocks for the long-term presence of the Indian-Pacific mantle boundary in the SW Pacific

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 254, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 377-392

  Nebel, O ^a,b   Munker C ^a,c   Nebel Jacobsen, Y J ^a   Kleine, T ^a,d   Mezger, K ^a   Mortimer, N ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Brook Street; Hf Nd co variations; Indian type mantle; mantle convection

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPE COMPOSITIONS; MANTLE BOUNDARY; MANTLE CONVECTION;

GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HAFNIUM; LEAD; NEODYMIUM; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

ROCKS;

GONDWANA; HAFNIUM; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LEAD; MANTLE CONVECTION; NEODYMIUM; OCEANIC CRUST; OVERTURN; PALEOZOIC; PERMIAN; PLATE TECTONICS; SLAB; SUBDUCTION; TRACE ELEMENT;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

EID: 33846618722     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.11.046     Document Type: Article

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