Controls on platinum-group elemental distributions of podiform chromitites: A case study of high-Cr and high-Al chromitites from Chinese orogenic belts

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 677-688

  Zhou, Mei Fu ^a,b   Sun, Min ^b   Keays, Reid R ^a   Kerrich, Robert W ^c  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMITITE; PGE;

CHINA;

EID: 0031851321     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7037(97)00382-7     Document Type: Article

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