A refined technique for measuring crystal size distributions in thin section

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 124, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 395-405

  Peterson, Tony D ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER EXPERIMENT; CRYSTAL SIZE DISTRIBUTION; MEGACRYST; MICROPHENOCRYST; THIN SECTION;

EID: 0030391539     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004100050199     Document Type: Article

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