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Science 19 August 1966:
Vol. 153. no. 3738, pp. 867 - 869
DOI: 10.1126/science.153.3738.867
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Rare Earths in Hawaiian Basalts

Jean-Guy Schilling 1 and John W. Winchester 1

1 Department of Geology and Geophysics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139

Rare-earth elements have been determined by neutron activation analysis in 20 basalts from the Hawaiian Islands. The abundance patterns of these elements form groups coinciding closely with groupings based on other evidence, and a fractional crystallization mechanism for change in rare earth abundance is implied.


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Red Sea Floor Origin: Rare-Earth Evidence.
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