Zirconolite and Zr-Th-U minerals in chromitites of the Finero Complex, Western Alps, Italy: Evidence for carbonatite-type metasomatism in a subcontinental mantle plume

Canadian Mineralogist

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1825-1845

  Zaccarini, Federica ^a   Stumpfl, Eugene F ^a   Garuti, Giorgio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Baddeleyite; Carbonatite metasomatism; Chromitite; Finero Complex, Western Alps, Italy; Thorianite; Thorite or huttonite; Uraninite; Zircon; Zirconolite

Indexed keywords

CARBONATES; COMPOSITION; CRYSTALLIZATION; FRACTURE; SILICA; TEXTURES;

CONTINENTAL CRUST; HYDROUS FLUIDS; METASOMATISM; VEINS;

ZIRCON DEPOSITS;

CHROMITITE; DIAPIRISM; MANTLE PLUME; METASOMATISM; ZIRCONOLITE;

ALPS; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WESTERN ALPS; WORLD;

EID: 15044352756     PISSN: 00084476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gscanmin.42.6.1825     Document Type: Article

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