Tungsten geochemistry and implications for understanding the Earth's interior

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 272, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 656-665

  Arevalo Jr , Ricardo ^a   McDonough, William F ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

basalt; concentration ratio; core; mantle; tungsten; uranium

Indexed keywords

BASALTIC MELTS; CONCENTRATION OF TUNGSTEN; CORE MANTLE; CORE MANTLE INTERACTIONS; CRUST FORMATIONS; EARTH'S INTERIOR; ICP-MS ,; MID OCEAN RIDGE BASALT (MORB); PARTITIONING BEHAVIOR; TRACE ELEMENT CHEMISTRY;

ABLATION; ACTINIDES; AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS; BARIUM; BASALT; CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; CHEMISTRY; EARTH SCIENCES; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; LASER ABLATION; LASER CHEMISTRY; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; SEPARATION; SILICATES; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; TUNGSTEN; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; URANIUM;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

BACKARC BASIN; BASALT; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; FORMATION MECHANISM; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; MASS BALANCE; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; SOURCE ROCK; TRACE ELEMENT; TUNGSTEN; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 48149102301     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.05.031     Document Type: Article

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