Yttrium and rare earth element contents in seamount cobalt crusts in the Indian Ocean

Current Science

Volumn 103, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1334-1338

  Balaram, V ^a   Banakar, V K ^b   Subramanyam, K S V ^a   Roy, Parijat ^a   Satyanarayanan, M ^a   Mohan, M Ram ^a   Sawant, S S ^a  

^a NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

Author keywords

Cobalt crust; Rare earth elements; Seamount; Yttrium

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872157724     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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