A fresh isotopic look at Greenland kimberlites: Cratonic mantle lithosphere imprint on deep source signal

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 305, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 235-248

  Tappe, Sebastian ^a   Pearson, D Graham ^a   Nowell, Geoff ^b   Nielsen, Troels ^c   Milstead, Phil ^b   Muehlenbachs, Karlis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Kimberlite petrogenesis; Low Cr megacrysts; Mantle reservoirs; North Atlantic craton; Sr Nd Hf isotope geochemistry; U Pb perovskite geochronology

Indexed keywords

HF ISOTOPE; LOW-CR MEGACRYSTS; MANTLE RESERVOIRS; NORTH ATLANTIC; PETROGENESIS; U-PB PEROVSKITE GEOCHRONOLOGY;

BEARINGS (STRUCTURAL); CESIUM; DIAMOND DEPOSITS; EXPLORATORY GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HAFNIUM; IGNEOUS ROCKS; ISOTOPES; LEAD; MELTING; MICA; MINERALS; NEODYMIUM; OCEANOGRAPHY; PEROVSKITE; PETROLOGY; RUBIDIUM; SILICATE MINERALS; STRONTIUM; TRACE ELEMENTS; ZIRCONIUM;

CARBONATION;

CRATON; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; KIMBERLITE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MAGMA; MAGMA CHAMBER; MEGACRYST; MELTING; PEROVSKITE; PETROGENESIS; PROTEROZOIC; TRACE ELEMENT; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); CANADA; GREENLAND; LABRADOR; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; WEST GREENLAND;

EID: 79953745641     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.03.005     Document Type: Article

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