Garnet-spinel-pyroxenite xenoliths from Hyblean Plateau (South-eastern Sicily, Italy)

Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 215-226

  Atzori, P ^a   Mazzoleni, P ^a   Punturo, R ^a   Scribano, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GARNET; GEOTHERMOMETRY; MINERALOGY; MIOCENE; P-T CONDITIONS; PYROXENITE; SPINEL; TEXTURE; XENOLITH;

HYBLEAN PLATEAU; ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 0345043911     PISSN: 09300708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01164494     Document Type: Article

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