Compositional variations in manganese carbonate micronodules from the Lower Proterozoic Nsuta deposit, Ghana: Product of authigenic precipitation or post-formational diagenesis?

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 154, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 159-175

  Nyame, F K ^a   Beukes, N J ^b   Kase, K ^c   Yamamoto, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diagenesis; Kutnahorite; Micronodules; Proterozoic; Rhodochrosite

Indexed keywords

AUTHIGENESIS; DIAGENESIS; MANGANESE; METAMORPHISM; NODULATION; PROTEROZOIC; RHODOCHROSITE;

GHANA;

EID: 0037211917     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(02)00128-8     Document Type: Article

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