Controls on the emplacement of kimberlites and alkalic rock-carbonatite complexes in the Canadian Shield and surrounding regions

Exploration and Mining Geology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 285-296

  Card, K D ^a   Sanford, B V ^b   Card, G M ^a  

^a Card and Associates' Geosearch   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

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