The chromite deposit of the Ipueira-Medrado Sill, São Francisco Craton, Bahia State, Brazil

Economic Geology

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 87-108

  Marques, Juliana Charao ^a   Filho, Cesar Fonseca Ferreira ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGMATIC EVOLUTION;

MINERALOGY; ROCK MECHANICS; STRATIGRAPHY;

CHROMITE DEPOSITS;

CHROMITE; HOST ROCK; MAFIC ROCK; MAGMA CHEMISTRY; METALLOGENESIS; ORE DEPOSIT; ORE-FORMING FLUID; SILL; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK;

BRAZIL;

EID: 0141454824     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.98.1.87     Document Type: Article

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