Rhenium-osmium isotope systematics and platinum group element concentrations in oceanic crust from DSDP/ODP Sites 504 and 417/418

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2003, Pages

  Bernhard, Peucker Ehrenbrink ^a   Bach, Wolfgang ^a   Hart, Stanley R ^a   Blusztajn, Jerzy S ^a   Abbruzzese, Tracy ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrothermal alteration; Oceanic crust; Osmium isotopes; PGE; Standard reference material; Subduction zone

Indexed keywords

EID: 72749109168     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GC000414     Document Type: Article

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