Characteristics of opals from Simav, Turkey

Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, Monatshefte

Volumn 3, Issue , 2001, Pages 97-113

  Esenli, F ^a   Kumbasar, I ^a   Eren, R H ^a   Uz, B ^a  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Fire opal; Opal C; Opal CT; Simav's opal; Turkey

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040434789     PISSN: 00283649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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