Petrogenesis of the Dullstroom Formation, Bushveld Magmatic Province, South Africa

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 137, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 133-146

  Buchanan, Paul C ^a,c   Koeberl, Christian ^a   Reimold, Wolf Uwe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDESITE; BASALT; BUSHVELD COMPLEX; MAGMATISM; PETROGENESIS;

BUSHVELD COMPLEX; DULLSTROOM; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0033385580     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004100050587     Document Type: Article

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