A reexamination of the turquoise group: The mineral aheylite, planerite (redefined), turquoise and coeruleolactite

Mineralogical Magazine

Volumn 62A, Issue PART 1, 1998, Pages 93-111

  Foord, Eugene E ^a   Taggart Jr , Joseph E ^a  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

'coeruleolactite'; Aheylite; Planerite; Turquoise group; X ray diffraction data

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007978213     PISSN: 0026461X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1180/002646198547495     Document Type: Article

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