GEOCHEMICAL AND COSMOCHEMICAL APPLICATIONS OF ND ISOTOPE ANALYSIS

This paper discusses the natural processes capable of inducing variations in the isotopic composition of Nd, the techniques used for precise measurement of the variations, and a variety of applications of Nd isotope analysis. These include dating of the moon, meteorites and Archaean terrestrial rocks, studies of the evolution of the Earth's crust and mantle and petrogenetic studies, particularly of oceanic and continental basalts and oceanic ferromanganese deposits.-after Authors