Geological Setting and Controls on the Development of Graphite, Sillimanite and Phosphate Mineralization within the Jiamusi Massif: An Exotic Fragment of Gondwanaland Located in North-Eastern China?

Gondwana Research

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 21-46

  Wilde, Simon A ^a   Dorsett Bain, Helen L ^a   Lennon, Robert G ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

China; Gondwanaland; Graphite; Khondalite; Pan African

Indexed keywords

GONDWANA; GRANULITE FACIES; GRAPHITE; KHONDALITE; MINERALIZATION; ORTHOGNEISS; PHOSPHATE GROUP; SILLIMANITE;

CHINA; HEILONGJIANG; JIAMUSI MASSIF;

EID: 0001800536     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1342-937X(05)70125-8     Document Type: Article

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