High-precision rare earth element, nickel, and chromium chemistry of chert microbands pre-screened with in-situ analysis

Chemical Geology

Volumn 285, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 133-143

  Baldwin, Geoffrey J ^a   Thurston, Phillips C ^a   Kamber, Balz S ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chert; Iron formation; Nickel; REE+Y

Indexed keywords

ABITIBI; ANALYTICAL CHALLENGE; ANALYTICAL PROTOCOLS; BANDED IRON FORMATIONS; BULK ANALYSIS; BULK CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPLEXITY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; CHERT; DETECTION LIMITS; DILUTION FACTORS; FOREIGN MATERIALS; GREENSTONE BELTS; HIGH QUALITY; HIGH-PRECISION; IN-SITU ANALYSIS; IRON FORMATION; IRON MINERALS; LA-ICP-MS; LASER-ABLATION INDUCTIVELY-COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATRIX; MICROBANDS; MINIMAL EFFECTS; PRECAMBRIAN; PRESERVATION POTENTIAL; REE+Y; ROCK SAMPLE; SELECTIVE DIGESTION; TRACE ELEMENT CONTENT;

ABLATION; ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; CHROMIUM; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; IRON; MASS SPECTROMETERS; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; RARE EARTHS; TRACE ANALYSIS;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

BANDED IRON FORMATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHERT; CHROMIUM; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; NICKEL; PRECAMBRIAN; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY;

ABITIBI BELT; CANADA;

EID: 79957462074     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2011.03.019     Document Type: Article

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