Comparative petrology of Archaean anorthosites in amphibolite and granulite facies terranes, SW Greenland

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 371-384

  Owens, Brent E ^a,b   Dymek, Robert F ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; ANORTHOSITE; ARCHAEAN; GRANULITE FACIES;

EID: 0345698873     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004100050315     Document Type: Article

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