Genesis of Palaeoproterozoic iron skarns in the Misi region, northern Finland

Mineralium Deposita

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 192-217

  Niiranen, Tero ^a   Mänttäri, Irmeli ^b   Poutiainen, Matti ^a   Oliver, Nicholas H S ^c   Miller, Jodie A ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^e STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Finland; Iron skarn; Palaeoproterozoic; Sodic alteration

Indexed keywords

IRON; METALLOGENESIS; ORE DEPOSIT; PROTEROZOIC; SKARN;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 29444459904     PISSN: 00264598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00126-005-0481-0     Document Type: Article

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