An experimentally verified model for calcite precipitation in veins

Chemical Geology

Volumn 130, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 203-215

  Lee, Young Joon ^a   Morse, John W ^a   Wiltschko, David V ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; PRECIPITATION; VEIN;

EID: 0030302378     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0009-2541(96)00008-3     Document Type: Article

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