Osmium isotopes in Grande Comore lavas: A new extreme among a spectrum of EM-type mantle endmembers

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 284, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 219-227

  Class, Cornelia ^a   Goldstein, Steven L ^a,b   Shirey, Steven B ^c  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

lithospheric mantle; mantle components; mantle plume; ocean island basalts; Os isotopes; pyroxenite

Indexed keywords

LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; MANTLE COMPONENTS; MANTLE PLUME; OCEAN ISLAND BASALTS; OS ISOTOPES; PYROXENITE;

ALKALINITY; BASALT; CONTAMINATION; DOORS; EARTH (PLANET); ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; HELIUM; ISOTOPES; LANTHANUM; LEAD; NEODYMIUM; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; STRONTIUM; THERMAL PLUMES; VOLCANOES; WINDOWS;

OSMIUM;

ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LAVA; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MAGMA; MANTLE PLUME; MANTLE STRUCTURE; OCEAN ISLAND BASALT; OSMIUM ISOTOPE; PYROXENITE; VOLCANIC ROCK; XENOLITH;

COMOROS; GRANDE COMORE; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS;

EID: 67449091207     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.04.031     Document Type: Article

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