Platinum-group minerals in chromitites from the Pindos ophiolite complex, Greece

Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, Monatshefte

Volumn , Issue 4, 1996, Pages 145-160

  Tarkian, M ^a   Economou Eliopoulos, M ^b   Sambanis, G ^b  

^a Mineralogisch Petrographisches I   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Chromitite; Microprobe analysis; Ophiolite; PGE; PGM

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030531919     PISSN: 00283649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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