An unusual assemblage of high-Ti oxides and ferroan clinochlore along zones of brittle deformation in the Vourinos (Rodiani) ophiolite complex, Greece

Canadian Mineralogist

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1327-1338

  Christidis, George E ^a   Economou Eliopoulos, Maria ^b   Marcopoulos, Theodor ^a   Laskou, Magda ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Clinochlore; Ferrous iron analogue of pseudobrookite; Geothermometer; Greece; Ophiolite; Perovskite; Pseudobrookite; Rodingite; Rutile; Vourinos (Rodiani)

Indexed keywords

CHLORITE; GEOTHERMOMETRY; OPHIOLITE;

GREECE;

EID: 0032455622     PISSN: 00084476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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