Osmium isotope variations accompanying the eruption of a single lava flow field in the Columbia River Flood Basalt Province

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 368, Issue , 2013, Pages 183-194

  Vye Brown, C ^a,b   Gannoun, A ^a,c   Barry, T L ^a,d   Self, S ^a   Burton, K W ^a,e  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Columbia River Flood Basalts; Crustal contamination; Osmium isotopes

Indexed keywords

COLUMBIA RIVER BASALTS; COLUMBIA RIVER FLOOD BASALTS; CONTINENTAL FLOOD BASALT; CRUSTAL CONTAMINATION; GEOCHEMICAL INTERPRETATION; MAJOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS; OSMIUM ISOTOPES; SUB-CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERIC MANTLES;

FLOODS; FLOW FIELDS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISOTOPES; OSMIUM; RIVERS;

BASALT;

CRUSTAL CONTAMINATION; EMPLACEMENT; FLOOD BASALT; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAVA FLOW; MAGMA CHEMISTRY; OSMIUM ISOTOPE; TRACE ELEMENT; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

COLUMBIA RIVER;

EID: 84876482896     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.02.003     Document Type: Article

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