Osmium isotopes in the aerosols of the mantle volcano Mauna Loa

doi:10.1016/0012-821X(92)90041-S

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volume 110, Issues 1–4, May 1992, Pages 95-98

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Abstract

Aerosols and reactive gases from the spring 1984 eruption of Mauna Loa Volcano on Hawaii were collected and analyzed for osmium and its isotopic composition. The measured¹⁸⁷Os/¹⁸⁶Os ratio of1.14 ± 0.03 is close to the ratio in matter with solar systemRe/Os abundance. This result shows that the aerosols from Mauna Loa originated in the mantle and that their composition was not or only slightly influenced by their contact with the crust.

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Osmium isotopes in the aerosols of the mantle volcano Mauna Loa

Abstract

Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta

Anal. Chim. Acta

Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta

Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta

Earth Planet. Sci. Lett.

Versuch zur Datierung von Eisenmeteoriten nach der Rhenium-Osmium-Methode

Z. Naturforsch.

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Nature

187Re187Os systematics in meteorites: early chronology of the solar system and age of the galaxy

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Nature

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