Rare earth chemistry of perovskite group minerals from the Gardiner Complex, East Greenland

Mineralogical Magazine

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 197-212

  Campbell, Linda S ^a,c   Henderson, Paul ^a   Wall, Frances ^a   Nielsen, Troels F D ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b Kingston University ^*  (Denmark)

^c KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apatite; Gardiner Complex; Greenland; Loparite; Perovskite; Rare earth elements

Indexed keywords

APATITE; LOPARITE; PEROVSKITE; REE; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK;

GREENLAND;

EID: 0030818079     PISSN: 0026461X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1180/minmag.1997.061.405.04     Document Type: Article

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