Origin and depositional environment of Ordovician stratiform iron mineralization from Zamora (NW Iberian Peninsula)

Mineralium Deposita

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 606-619

  Fernandez A ^a   Moro, M C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; IRON; MINERALIZATION; ORDOVICIAN;

PORTUGAL;

EID: 0344889141     PISSN: 00264598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001260050176     Document Type: Article

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