Compositional, structural and phase relationships in titanian ixiolite and titanian columbite - Tantalite

Canadian Mineralogist

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 547-561

  Černý, Petr ^a   Ercit, T Scott ^b   Wise, Michael A ^c   Chapman, Ron ^a   Buck, Harvey M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b CANADIAN MUSEUM OF NATURE   (Canada)

^c SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Columbite; Exsolution; Ixiolite; Order disorder; Tantalite; Titanium

Indexed keywords

COLUMBITE; EXSOLUTION; IXIOLITE; TANTALITE; TITANIUM;

EID: 0031738879     PISSN: 00084476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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