Complex chromite textures reveal the history of an early Archaean layered ultramafic body in West Greenland

Mineralogical Magazine

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1029-1041

  Appel, C C ^a   Appel, P W U ^a   Rollinson, H R ^b  

^a HALDOR TOPSØE A S   (Denmark)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Archaean; Chromite; Greenland; Harzburgite; Replacement

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; IRON; OXIDATION; TEXTURES;

SPINEL PHASES;

CHROMIUM;

ARCHEAN; CHROMITITE; DUNITE; EXSOLUTION; HARZBURGITE; LAYERED INTRUSION; REPLACEMENT; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK;

GREENLAND;

EID: 0036972250     PISSN: 0026461X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1180/0026461026660075     Document Type: Article

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