Weathering of ultramafic rocks and element mobility at Mt. Prinzera, Northern Apennines, Italy

Mineralogical Magazine

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 765-778

  Venturelli, Giampiero ^a   Contini, Simona ^a,b   Bonazzi, Achille ^a   Mangia, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b GEODE SCRL Studi Geologici P   (Italy)

Author keywords

Element mobility; Italy; Northern Apennines; Serpentinites; Weathering

Indexed keywords

MOBILITY; SERPENTINITE; WEATHERING;

ITALY, APENNINES, MONTE PRINZERA;

EID: 0031422840     PISSN: 0026461X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1180/minmag.1997.061.409.02     Document Type: Article

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