Nucleation-dominated crystallization of forsterite in the Ubehebe Peak contact aureole, California

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 823-826

  Roselle, Gregory T ^a   Baumgartner, Lukas P ^a   Chapman, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH KINETICS; MORPHOLOGY; NUCLEATION;

CALIFORNIA; FORSTERITES; HIGH LIGHTS; KINETIC SURFACE ROUGHENING; METAMORPHIC GRADE; NUCLEATION AND GROWTH; NUCLEATION KINETICS; NUCLEATION RATE;

OLIVINE;

AUREOLE; CRYSTAL PROPERTY; CRYSTALLIZATION; FORSTERITE; GROWTH RATE; NUCLEATION; CONTACT METAMORPHISM; METAMORPHIC AUREOLE; NUCLEATION KINETICS;

CALIFORNIA; UBEHEBE PEAK; UNITED STATES; USA;

EID: 0031460591     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0823:NDCOFI>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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