Enrichment of high field strength elements in stream sediments of a granulite terrain in Sri Lanka - Evidence for mineralized belt

Chemical Geology

Volumn 175, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 259-271

  Chandrajith, Rohana ^a   Dissanayake, C B ^b   Tobschall, H J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Geochemistry; High field strength elements; Sri Lanka; Stream sediment; Walawe ganga basin

Indexed keywords

FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GEOCHEMISTRY; GRANULITE; MINERAL EXPLORATION; MINERALIZATION; STREAM;

SRI LANKA;

EID: 0035007775     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2541(00)00293-X     Document Type: Article

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