Burton, Kevin; Cenki-Tok, Bénédicte; Mokadem, Fatima; Harvey, Jason; Gannoun, Abdelmouhcine; Alard, Olivier and Parkinson, Ian J.
(2012).
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1038/ngeo1531 |
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Abstract
The mantle and continental crust contain excessive amounts of radiogenic lead, implying that a complementary reservoir of unradiogenic lead should exist somewhere on Earth. Isotopic analyses of mantle rocks exposed on the Atlantic Ocean floor reveal that sulphide inclusions can have extremely unradiogenic lead compositions, suggesting that the reservoir could exist within the mantle itself.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2012 Macmillan Publishers Limited |
| ISSN: | 1752-0908 |
| Funders: | Ocean Drilling Program UK, NERC (grant ref. NER/A/S/2001/00538), EC Marie Curie Research and Training Network EUROMELT (HPRN-CT-2002-00211) |
| Keywords: | structural geology, tectonics and geodynamics; geochemistry; volcanology, mineralogy and petrology |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Science > Environment, Earth and Ecosystems |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Centre for Earth, Planetary, Space and Astronomical Research (CEPSAR) |
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| Item ID: | 33957 |
| Depositing User: | Ian Parkinson |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Jul 2012 15:00 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Jan 2013 13:53 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/33957 |
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