Brushite in the bat guano deposit from the "dry" Cioclovina Cave (Sureanu Mountains, Romania)

Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, Abhandlungen

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 45-64

  Dumitraş, Delia Georgeta ^a   Marincea, Ştefan ^a   Fransolet, André Mathieu ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF ROMANIA   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

"Dry" Cioclovina Cave; Brushite; Crystal chemistry; Infrared absorption data; Physical properties; Romania; Thermal behavior; Unit cell parameters

Indexed keywords

BAT; BRUSHITE; CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY; GUANO; MINERALOGY; PHOSPHATE; PHYSICAL PROPERTY;

CARPATHIANS; CIOCLOVINA CAVE; EURASIA; EUROPE; HUNEDOARA; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SUREANU MOUNTAINS;

EID: 2442454531     PISSN: 00777757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0077-7757/2004/0180-0045     Document Type: Article

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