Origin and tectonic environment of podiform chromite deposits

Economic Geology

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 259-262

  Zhou, Mei Fu ^a   Robinson, Paul T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMITE; MINERALIZATION; PODIFORM DEPOSIT; TECTONIC ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0031446021     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.92.2.259     Document Type: Article

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