Flood Basalts Preserve Details of Earth's Early Formation (1 of 4) (IMAGE)

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Flood Basalts Preserve Details of Earth's Early Formation (1 of 4)

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Baffin Bay flood basalts. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 13, 2016, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by H. Rizo at Université du Québec à Montréal in Montréal, QC, Canada, and colleagues was titled, "Preservation of Earth-forming events in the tungsten isotopic composition of modern flood basalts."

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Don Francis

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