Os isotope systematics of mesoarchean chromitite-PGE deposits in the Singhbhum Craton (India): Implications for the evolution of lithospheric mantle

Chemical Geology

Volumn 244, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 391-408

  Mondal, Sisir K ^a,b   Frei, Robert ^c,d   Ripley, Edward M ^e  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^e INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Archean chromite; Chromite; India; Re Os isotope; SCLM; Singhbhum Craton; Sm Nd isotope

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; BRECCIA; CHROMITITE; CRYSTALLIZATION; GABBRO; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE SOURCE; OSMIUM ISOTOPE; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENT; RHENIUM-OSMIUM DATING; SAMARIUM-NEODYMIUM DATING;

ASIA; BIHAR; EURASIA; INDIA; SINGHBHUM; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 34548562407     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2007.06.025     Document Type: Article

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