Rare earth elements in Greenland: Known and new targets identified and characterised by regional stream sediment data

Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 313-326

  Steenfelt, Agnete ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Greenland; REE abundance; REE fractionation; REE occurrences; Stream sediment geochemistry

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; EUROPIUM ALLOYS; EXPLORATORY GEOCHEMISTRY; GRANITE; LANTHANUM ALLOYS; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; RARE EARTHS; SEDIMENTS; YTTERBIUM ALLOYS;

ANALYTICAL DATA; BACKGROUND VALUE; GREENLAND; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS (REES); REE ABUNDANCE; REE OCCURRENCES; SOURCE ROCKS; STREAM SEDIMENTS;

DATA STREAMS;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; FRACTIONATION; LITHOLOGY; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SOURCE ROCK; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARCTIC; DENMARK; GREENLAND;

EID: 84872900747     PISSN: 14677873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/geochem2011-113     Document Type: Article

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