Rhenium-osmium isotopes and platinum-group elements in the Rum Layered Suite, Scotland: Implications for Cr-spinel seam formation and the composition of the Iceland mantle anomaly

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 286, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 41-51

  O'Driscoll, Brian ^a   Day, James M D ^b   Daly, J Stephen ^a   Walker, Richard J ^b   McDonough, William F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Cr spinel seam formation; Iceland; mantle; North Atlantic Igneous Province; Os isotopes; platinum group elements; Rum Layered Suite

Indexed keywords

CR-SPINEL SEAM FORMATION; ICELAND; MANTLE; NORTH ATLANTIC IGNEOUS PROVINCE; OS ISOTOPES; PLATINUM-GROUP ELEMENTS; RUM LAYERED SUITE;

BASALT; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; ISOTOPES; METAL RECOVERY; OSMIUM; PLATINUM; RHENIUM; SILICATES; STRATIGRAPHY;

CHROMIUM;

IGNEOUS PROVINCE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAYERED INTRUSION; MAFIC ROCK; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; OSMIUM; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENT; RHENIUM; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ICELAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 69549116139     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.06.013     Document Type: Article

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