Modeling lead isotopic heterogeneity in mid-ocean ridge basalts

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 262, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 328-342

  Kellogg, James B ^a   Jacobsen, Stein B ^a   O'Connell, Richard J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

lead isotopes; mantle geochemistry; mantle heterogeneity; mantle isotopes; mid ocean ridge basalts

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LEAD ISOTOPES; MANTLE GEOCHEMISTRY; MANTLE HETEROGENEITY; MANTLE ISOTOPES; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALTS;

BASALT; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ISOTOPES; LEAD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

GEOCHEMISTRY;

CONTINENTAL CRUST; HETEROGENEITY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LEAD; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; MANTLE SOURCE; MELTING; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; OCEANIC CRUST; SUBDUCTION;

EID: 35148883473     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.06.018     Document Type: Article

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