Mineral chemistry, bulk composition and source of the ferromanganese nodules nuclei from the Central Indian Ocean Basin

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 66-69

  Banerjee, Ranadip ^a   Miura, Hiroyuki ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; FERROMANGANESE NODULE; MINERAL CHEMISTRY; PLAGIOCLASE;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 0031857203     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003670050053     Document Type: Article

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