The origin of metacarbonate rocks in the archaean Isua supracrustal belt, west Greenland

American Journal of Science

Volumn 296, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1004-1044

  Rose, Nicholas M ^a   Rosing, Minik T ^b   Bridgwater, David ^b  

^a Quest Geoscience   (Denmark)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAN; METACARBONATE ROCK; METASOMATISM;

GREENLAND, ISUA;

EID: 0030440488     PISSN: 00029599     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2475/ajs.296.9.1004     Document Type: Article

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