Mineral intergrowths replaced by "elbow-twinned" rutile in altered rocks

Canadian Mineralogist

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 605-614

  Force, Eric R ^a   Richards, R Peter ^b   Scott, Keith M ^c   Valentine, Page C ^d   Fishman, Neil S ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Morphogenesis Inc   (United States)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Elbow twin; Hydrothermal alteration; Ilmenite lamellae; Rutile; Topotaxy; Trellis texture

Indexed keywords

ELBOW TWIN; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; ILMENITE LAMELLAE; RUTILE; TOPOTAXY; TRELLIS TEXTURE;

EID: 0030302334     PISSN: 00084476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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