Noble gases in spinel peridotite xenoliths from Mt Quincan, North Queensland, Australia: Undisturbed MORB-type noble gases in the subcontinental lithospheric mantle

Chemical Geology

Volumn 266, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 19-28

  Czuppon, György ^a   Matsumoto, Takuya ^a,b   Handler, Monica R ^c   Matsuda, Jun ichi ^a  

^a Graduate School of Science   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Mantle xenoliths; Noble gas isotopes; Subcontinental lithospheric mantle

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; MANTLE PLUME; NOBLE GAS; PERIDOTITE; XENOLITH;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; MOUNT QUINCAN; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 68349128688     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2009.03.029     Document Type: Article

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