Extreme lithium isotopic fractionation during continental weathering revealed in saprolites from South Carolina

Chemical Geology

Volumn 212, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 45-57

  Rudnick, Roberta L ^a   Tomascak, Paul B ^a,c   Njo, Heather B ^a   Gardner, L Robert ^b  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT OSWEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Continental weathering; Lithium isotopes; Saprolite; South Carolina

Indexed keywords

FRACTIONATION; GRANITE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LITHIUM; SAPROLITE; WEATHERING;

NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 5044227474     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2004.08.008     Document Type: Article

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