Genesis of platinum-group minerals in the Las Aguilas mafic-ultramafic rocks, San Luis Province, Argentina: Textural, chemical and mineralogical evidence

Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 68, Issue 1-3, 2000, Pages 85-114

  Mogessie, A ^a   Hauzenberger, Ch A ^a   Hoinkes, G ^a   Felfernig, A ^a   Stumpfl, E F ^b   Bjerg, E A ^c   Kostadinoff, J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL SUR   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; MAFIC ROCK; MINERALOGY; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENT; TEXTURE; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK;

ARGENTINA; LAS AGUILAS; SAN LUIS;

EID: 0002260999     PISSN: 09300708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007100050005     Document Type: Article

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