2000-Ma sulphide concretions from the 'Productive' Formation of the pechenga Greenstone Belt, NW Russia: genetic history based on morphological and isotopic evidence

Chemical Geology

Volumn 148, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 61-94

  Melezhik, V A ^a   Grinenko, L N ^b   Fallick, A E ^c  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^b VERNADSKY INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^c SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK SHALE; CONCRETION; DIAGENESIS; GEOCHEMISTRY; PROTEROZOIC;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION, KOLA PENINSULA;

EID: 0032486075     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2541(98)00021-7     Document Type: Article

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