Discriminating between different genetic types of marine ferro-manganese crusts and nodules based on rare earth elements and yttrium

Chemical Geology

Volumn 381, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-9

  Bau, M ^a   Schmidt, K ^a   Koschinsky, A ^a   Hein, J ^b   Kuhn, T ^c   Usui, A ^d  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

^d KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Discrimination diagram; Ferromanganese crusts; Hydrothermal iron and manganese deposits; Manganese nodules; Marine Fe Mn (oxyhydr)oxides; Rare earth elements

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; MANGANESE; MANGANESE NODULES; NEODYMIUM ALLOYS; QUALITY CONTROL; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; YTTRIUM; YTTRIUM DEPOSITS; YTTRIUM OXIDE;

DISCRIMINATION DIAGRAM; EXPLORATION TARGETS; FERROMANGANESE CRUSTS; GENETIC CLASSIFICATION; GEOCHEMICAL BACKGROUND; HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSITS; MINERALOGICAL COMPOSITIONS; NEGATIVE CE ANOMALY;

YTTRIUM ALLOYS;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; FERROMANGANESE DEPOSIT; HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSIT; IRON; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; YTTRIUM;

EID: 84901650431     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2014.05.004     Document Type: Article

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