Formation of pyroxenite layers in the Totalp ultramafic massif (Swiss Alps) - Insights from highly siderophile elements and Os isotopes

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 661-683

  van Acken, David ^a,b   Becker, Harry ^a   Walker, Richard J ^b   McDonough, William F ^b   Wombacher, Frank ^a   Ash, Richard D ^b   Piccoli, Phil M ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; MANTLE SOURCE; OSMIUM ISOTOPE; PERIDOTITE; PYROXENITE; SIDEROPHILE ELEMENT;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 70849111273     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2009.10.007     Document Type: Article

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