Constancy of Nb/U in the mantle revisited

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 72, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 3542-3549

  Sun, Weidong ^a,b   Hu, Yanhua ^a,e   Kamenetsky, Vadim S ^c   Eggins, Stephen M ^d   Chen, Ming ^a   Arculus, Richard J ^d  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL CRUST; CONVERGENT MARGIN; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE SOURCE; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; NIOBIUM; OCEAN ISLAND BASALT; SLAB; SUBDUCTION; URANIUM;

EID: 46049084167     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2008.04.029     Document Type: Article

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