The early terrestrial crust

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 339, Issue 14-15, 2007, Pages 928-936

  Bourdon, Bernard ^a   Caro, Guillaume ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chondrites; Early crust; Hadean; Neodymium; Zircon

Indexed keywords

CRUST; EARLY EARTH; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; NEODYMIUM; PRECAMBRIAN; ZIRCON;

EID: 36749079846     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2007.09.002     Document Type: Article

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