Oxygen, carbon and strontium isotope study of the carbonatitic dolomite host of the Bayan Obo Fe-Nb-REE deposit, Inner Mongolia, N China

Mineralogical Magazine

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 531-541

  Le Bas, M J ^a,c   Spiro, B ^b   Xueming, Yang ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Bayan Obo; Carbon isotopes; Carbonatite; Dolomite; Limestone; Marble; Oxygen isotopes; Strontium isotopes

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBONATITE; DOLOMITE; IRON-NIOBIUM-REE DEPOSIT; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; OXYGEN; STRONTIUM;

CHINA, NEI MONGOL, BAYAN OBO;

EID: 0031446615     PISSN: 0026461X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1180/minmag.1997.061.407.05     Document Type: Article

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