Oxygen isotope studies on placer sapphire and ruby in the Chanthaburi-Trat alkali basaltic gemfield, Thailand

Lithos

Volumn 86, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 197-211

  Yui, Tzen Fu ^a   Wu, Chao Ming ^b   Limtrakun, Phisit ^c   Sricharn, Weerapan ^c   Boonsoong, Apichet ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Alkali basalts; Garnet pyroxenite; Oxygen isotopes; Ruby; Sapphire; Thailand

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PLACER DEPOSIT; RUBY; SAPPHIRE;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND;

EID: 30944448620     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2005.06.002     Document Type: Article

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