Characterization of magnetite particles in shocked quartz by means of electron- and magnetic force microscopy: Vredefort, South Africa

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 232-245

  Cloete, Marthinus ^a   Hart, Rodger J ^a,b   Schmid, Herbert K ^c,f   Drury, Martyn ^d   Demanet, Chris M ^e   Sankar, K Vijaya ^e  

^a Western Cape Regional Office   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TRANSKEI   (South Africa)

^f INM LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEW MATERIALS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MAGNETITE; QUARTZ; SHOCK METAMORPHISM;

SOUTH AFRICA; VREDEFORT STRUCTURE;

EID: 0033382310     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004100050548     Document Type: Article

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