Influence of Hadean crust evident in basalts and cherts from the Pilbara Craton

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 214-217

  Tessalina, Svetlana G ^a,e   Bourdon, Bernard ^b   Van Kranendonk, Martin ^c,d   Birck, Jean Louis ^a   Philippot, Pascal ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARITE; BASALT; CHERT; CRATON; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MANTLE CONVECTION; METAMORPHISM; SAMARIUM-NEODYMIUM DATING; TRACE ELEMENT;

AUSTRALIA; PILBARA BLOCK; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 77950528871     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo772     Document Type: Article

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