Low-Th pyrochlore in carbonatite from the Amba Dongar carbonatite-alkaline complex, Gujarat, India

Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, Monatshefte

Volumn , Issue 1, 1997, Pages 34-48

  Ghose, Indraneel ^a   Fialin, Michel ^a   Kienast, Jean Robert ^a   Viladkar, Srinivas G ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b ST XAVIER S COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Amba Dongar; Calcite carbonatite; Electron microprobe; Pyrochlore

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041163670     PISSN: 00283649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/njmm/1997/1997/34     Document Type: Article

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