Magnesium stable isotope composition of Earth's upper mantle

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 282, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 306-313

  Handler, Monica R ^a   Baker, Joel A ^a   Schiller, Martin ^a   Bennett, Vickie C ^b   Yaxley, Gregory M ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

magnesium; olivine; pallasites; pyroxene; stable isotopes; terrestrial mantle

Indexed keywords

'DRY' [; ANALYTICAL UNCERTAINTIES; ANTARCTICA; ARCHAEAN; CHONDRITE METEORITES; EASTERN AUSTRALIA; GREENLAND; HARZBURGITES; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; LITHOSPHERIC AGES; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLES; MANTLE METASOMATISMS; MANTLE OLIVINES; MC-ICP-MS; MG ISOTOPES; PALLASITES; PARENT BODIES; PERMIAN; PYROXENE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOURCE MATERIALS; STABLE ISOTOPES; TERRESTRIAL MANTLE; UPPER MANTLES;

BASALT; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC LOAD MANAGEMENT; FARM BUILDINGS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; ISOTOPES; MAGNESIUM; MAGNESIUM PRINTING PLATES; METEORITES; MINERALOGY; OLIVINE; PHOSPHATE MINERALS;

SILICATE MINERALS;

ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MAGNESIUM; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; OLIVINE; PERIDOTITE; PYROXENE; STABLE ISOTOPE; UPPER MANTLE;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; ASIA; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EURASIA; GREENLAND; JORDAN; MIDDLE EAST; YEMEN;

EID: 67349217741     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.03.031     Document Type: Article

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