Research Interests

• Trace element and isotope geochemistry with the aim of using trace element fractionations to date and quantify processes
• Isotopes of interest are those that can be measured by solid source mass spectrometry: Sr, Nd, Pb, Hf, Th, Os, Hg

Selected Publications

• Salters, V.J.M., 1996, The generation of mid-ocean-ridge-basalts from the Hf and Nd isotope perspective, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, .


• Sangrey, W.F., White, W.M., and Salters, V.J.M., 1996, Ups and Downs of Ferromanganese nodules and the Hf isotope geochemistry of seawater, Earth Plan. Sci. Lett., .


• Kelemen, P. Shimizu,N. and Salters, V.J.M., 1995, Extraction of MORB from the mantle by focused flow of melt in dunite channels., Nature, 375, 747-753.


• Salters, V.J.M. and A. Zindler, 1995, Extreme 176Hf/177Hf in the Sub-Oceanic Mantle, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 129, 13-30.