Metabasites from the central Vor-Spessart, North-West Bavaria Part 2: Comparison of different geothermometers and geobarometers

Chemie der Erde

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 25-50

  Nasir, Sobhi ^a   Okrusch, Martin ^b  

^a QATAR UNIVERSITY   (Qatar)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOTHERMOBAROMETRY; METABASITE; P/T PATH;

GERMANY, BAVARIA, VOR-SPESSART;

EID: 0030749345     PISSN: 00092819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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