Graphite pseudomorphs after diamond? A carbon isotope and spectroscopic study of graphite cuboids from the Maksyutov Complex, south Ural Mountains, Russia

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 62, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2143-2154

  Leech, Mary L ^a   Ernst, W G ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAMOND; GRAPHITE; ISOTOPE;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 0032100385     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7037(98)00142-2     Document Type: Article

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