Neodymium-142 evidence for hadean mafic crust

Science

Volumn 321, Issue 5897, 2008, Pages 1828-1831

  O'Neil, Jonathan ^a   Carlson, Richard W ^b   Francis, Don ^a   Stevenson, Ross K ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEODYMIUM; NEODYMIUM 142; NEODYMIUM 144; SAMARIUM; SAMARIUM 146; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMPHIBOLITE; EARTH; GREENSTONE BELT; MAFIC ROCK; SAMARIUM-NEODYMIUM DATING;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CANADA; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GEOLOGY; HADEAN; MINERALOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 52949104399     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1161925     Document Type: Article

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20. This research was supported by National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery grants to D.F. (RGPIN 7977-00). We thank the municipality of Inukjuak and the Pituvik Landholding Corporation for permission to work on their territory; J. Mina, M. Carroll, V. Inukpuk Morkill, R. Kasudluak, and J. Williams for their hospitality and support; and M. Horan and T. Mock for analytical support. The Department of Terrestrial Magnetism Thermo-Fisher Scientific Triton (Bremen, Germany) was purchased with partial support from the NSF grant EAR-0320589.