Hydroxylian pseudorutile in an adamellite from the Nkambe area, Cameroon

Mineralogical Magazine

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 509-516

  Tetsopgang, S ^a   Koyanagi, J ^b   Enami, M ^a   Kihara, K ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cameroon; Ilmenite; Pseudorutile

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LATTICE CONSTANTS; POINT GROUPS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SOLID SOLUTIONS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

HEXAGONAL SYMMETRY;

MINERALOGY;

CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY; ILMENITE; MINERAL ALTERATION; RUTILE;

CAMEROON;

EID: 0042347830     PISSN: 0026461X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1180/0026461036730113     Document Type: Article

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