Ilmenite-apatite enrichments in the upper zone of the bushveld complex: A major titanium-rock phosphate resource

International Geology Review

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 1993, Pages 987-1000

  Von Gruenewaldt, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE; CUMULATE; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; IGNEOUS LAYERING; ILMENITE; LIQUID IMMISCIBILITY; MAGMA MIXING;

SOUTH AFRICA, TRANSVAAL, BUSHVELD COMPLEX;

EID: 0028591439     PISSN: 00206814     EISSN: 19382839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00206819309465570     Document Type: Article

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