On the geochemistry of chromitites from the Pindos ophiolite complex, Greece

Chemie der Erde

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 19-31

  Economou Eliopoulos, M ^a   Tarkian, M ^b   Sambanis, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Mineralogisch Petrographisches I   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMITITE; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; OPHIOLITE;

GREECE;

EID: 0032916655     PISSN: 00092819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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