Deep-sea mud in the Pacific Ocean as a potential resource for rare-earth elements

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 535-539

  Kato, Yasuhiro ^a   Fujinaga, Koichiro ^a   Nakamura, Kentaro ^b   Takaya, Yutaro ^a   Kitamura, Kenichi ^a   Ohta, Junichiro ^a   Toda, Ryuichi ^a   Nakashima, Takuya ^a   Iwamori, Hikaru ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEEP SEA; MARINE SEDIMENT; MUD; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SAMPLING; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; YTTRIUM;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 79961096410     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1185     Document Type: Article

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