Re-Os isotope and highly siderophile element systematics of the Paraná continental flood basalts (Brazil)

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 337-338, Issue , 2012, Pages 164-173

  Rocha Júnior, Eduardo R V ^a,b   Puchtel, Igor S ^c   Marques, Leila S ^a   Walker, Richard J ^c   Machado, Fábio B ^d   Nardy, Antônio J R ^e   Babinski, Marly ^a   Figueiredo, Ana M G ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^e SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^f INSTITUTO DE PESQUISAS ENERGÉTICAS E NUCLEARES   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Highly siderophile elements; Mantle plume; Paran continental flood basalts; Re Os isotopic systematics; Tristan da Cunha

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL FLOOD BASALT; HIGHLY SIDEROPHILE ELEMENTS; ISOTOPIC SYSTEMATICS; MANTLE PLUME; TRISTAN DA CUNHA;

BASALT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISOTOPES; LEAD; NEODYMIUM; RHENIUM; STRONTIUM;

OSMIUM;

CRETACEOUS; FLOOD BASALT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MAGMA CHEMISTRY; MANTLE PLUME; MANTLE SOURCE; OSMIUM ISOTOPE; RHENIUM; RHENIUM-OSMIUM DATING; SIDEROPHILE ELEMENT;

BRAZIL; PARANA [BRAZIL]; SAINT HELENA; TRISTAN DA CUNHA;

EID: 84862645537     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.04.050     Document Type: Article

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