Upper crustal podiform chromitite from the northern Oman ophiolite as the stratigraphically shallowest chromitite in ophiolite and its implication for Cr concentration

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 145-154

  Arai, Shoji ^a   Uesugi, Jiro ^a   Ahmed, Ahmed H ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMITITE; OPHIOLITE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY);

ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; OMAN;

EID: 2142705409     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-004-0552-8     Document Type: Article

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