Sea-floor evolution: rare-earth evidence

A systematic survey of rare-earth (r.e.) abundances in submarine tholeiitic basalts along mid-oceanic ridges has been made by neutron activation analysis. The r.e. fractionation patterns are remarkably uniform along each mid-oceanic ridge and from one ridge to another (Juan de Fuca Ridge, East Pacif...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society 1971
Subjects:
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.1971.0021
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsta.1971.0021