A silica-deficient, shallow-marine zeolite assemblage in the Foveaux Formation, Bluff Peninsula, New Zealand

Mineralogical Magazine

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 137-144

  Coombs, Doug S ^a   Bosel, C A ^a,b   Kawachi, Y ^a,c   Paterson, L A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b Murrin Murrin Operations Pty Ltd   (Australia)

^c Yuakri Ichibangai   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bluff Gabbronorite; Chabazite; Chatton Formation; Foveaux Formation; Gonnardite; Mesolite; New Zealand; Scolecite; Thomsonite; Zeolites

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; CALCIUM; CEMENTS; CRYSTALS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SEDIMENTS; SILICA; SODIUM;

MARINE SEDIMENTS; MESOLITE; NEW ZEALAND; ZEOLITE ASSEMBLAGE;

ZEOLITES;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; ZEOLITE;

AUSTRALASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; NEW ZEALAND; WORLD;

EID: 20444365817     PISSN: 0026461X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1180/0026461056920241     Document Type: Article

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