Composition and thermal evolution of cratonic mantle beneath the central Archean Slave Province, NWT, Canada

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 313-324

  MacKenzie, J M ^a   Canil, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

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EID: 19544388932     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004100050487     Document Type: Article

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