Rhenium and osmium isotope and elemental behaviour accompanying laterite formation in the Deccan region of India

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 261, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 239-258

  Wimpenny, J ^a   Gannoun, A ^a,b   Burton, K W ^a,c   Widdowson, M ^a   James, R H ^a   Gislason S R ^d  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

basalt weathering; laterite formation; osmium; rhenium

Indexed keywords

LATERITE; PALEOWATERTABLE; SAPROLITE;

BASALT; GROUNDWATER; ISOTOPES; MINERALOGY; OSMIUM; RHENIUM; TRACE ELEMENTS; WEATHERING;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY;

BASALT; ENRICHMENT; LATERITE; OSMIUM ISOTOPE; RHENIUM; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL PROFILE; TRACE ELEMENT; WEATHERING;

ASIA; DECCAN; EURASIA; GOA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 34548321710     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.06.028     Document Type: Article

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