Melilitolites: A new scheme of classification

Canadian Mineralogist

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 895-903

  Dunworth, Elizabeth Ann ^a,b   Bell, Keith ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Afrikandite; Kugdite; Melilitolite; Modifier; Okaite; Root name; Turjaite; Ultramelilitolite; Uncompahgrite

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; IGNEOUS ROCK; MELILITE; MELILITOLITE; NOMENCLATURE;

EID: 0032453744     PISSN: 00084476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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