Rhenium-osmium isotope systematics and platinum group element concentrations: Loess and the upper continental crust

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2001, Pages

  Peucker Ehrenbrink, Bernhard ^a   Jahn, Bor Ming ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

continental crust; isotopes; loess; Osmium; PGE; rhenium

Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM; ISOTOPES; NEODYMIUM; PALLADIUM; PLATINUM; RHENIUM; RUTHENIUM; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTS; STRONTIUM; TRACE ELEMENTS;

CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; HIGHLY SIDEROPHILE ELEMENTS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LOESS; MAJOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENTS; RHENIUM-OSMIUM ISOTOPE SYSTEMATICS; UPPER CONTINENTAL CRUST;

OSMIUM;

EID: 84955495974     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GC000172     Document Type: Article

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