Vanadium partitioning and the oxidation state of Archaean komatiite magmas

Nature

Volumn 389, Issue 6653, 1997, Pages 842-845

  Canil, Dante ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VANADIUM;

ARCHAEAN; KOMATIITE; OXIDATION STATE; PARTITIONING; VANADIUM;

ARTICLE; GEOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030833964     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/39860     Document Type: Article

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