Comprehensive refertilization of lithospheric mantle beneath the North China Craton: Further Os-Sr-Nd isotopic constraints

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 166, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 249-259

  Zhang, Hong Fu ^a   Goldstein, Steven L ^b   Zhou, Xin Hua ^a   Sun, Min ^c   Cai, Yue ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; CENOZOIC; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; OSMIUM ISOTOPE; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; XENOLITH;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NORTH CHINA BLOCK;

EID: 69249228597     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492007-152     Document Type: Article

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