Oxygen and carbon isotope study of natural and synthetic malachite

Economic Geology

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 245-260

  Melchiorre, Erik B ^a   Criss, Robert E ^a   Rose, Timothy P ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; MALACHITE; METALLOGENESIS; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; SECONDARY MINERAL;

EID: 0032788337     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.94.2.245     Document Type: Article

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