The significance of PGE variations with Sr–Nd isotopes and lithophile elements in the Emeishan flood basalt province from SW China to northern Vietnam

New analyses of siderophile–lithophile elements and Sr–Nd isotopes in the Permian basalts and picrites from northern Vietnam, the southernmost occurrence of the Emeishan flood basalt province, together with previously published data, are used to address the question of whether any meaningful correlation between these elements and isotopes exists at a province scale. The available data show that negative correlations between εNd, (87Sr/86Sr)i and...