Early Earth: Tungsten isotopes in seawater provide insights into the co-evolution of Earth's mantle and continents: Iron formations as new geochemical archives for the evolution of the early Earth - Science Daily

Scientists have demonstrated that a new geochemical archive -- 182Tungsten in banded iron formations -- can be used to simultaneously trace both the evolution of the Earth's mantle and continents throughout Earth's history. This offers new opportunities to be…

In a study published in the journal Nature Communications, Andrea Mundl-Petermeier and Sebastian Viehmann of the Department of Lithospheric Research at the University of Vienna have demonstrated that… [+2574 chars]

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