Morphological and chemical variations of chromian spinel in dunite-harzburgite complexes from the Sangun zone (SW Japan): Implications for mantle/melt reaction and chromitite formation processes

Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 305-323

  Matsumoto, I ^a   Arai, S ^b  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMITITE; DUNITE; HARZBURGITE; LITHOLOGY; SPINEL; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK;

CHUGOKU; HONSHU; JAPAN;

EID: 0041816076     PISSN: 09300708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007100170004     Document Type: Article

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