Attapadi supracrustals - A probable greenstone belt in the Southern Granulite Terrain

Indian Minerals

Volumn 58, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 143-156

  Nair, R V G ^a   Nair, M M ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LITHOLOGY; METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

GREENSTONE BELT; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; SUPRACRUSTAL ROCK; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK;

ASIA; ATTAPPADY; EURASIA; INDIA; KERALA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 15944391312     PISSN: 00195936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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