Character of the UG2 chromitite and host rocks and petrogenesis of its pegmatoidal footwall, northeastern Bushveld Complex

Economic Geology

Volumn 100, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1617-1630

  Mathez, E A ^a   Mey, J L ^a  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANORTHOSITE LENSES; CHROMITITE; PEGMATOID; PETROGENESIS; PLAGIOCLASE PYROXENITE;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; IGNEOUS ROCKS; LITHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PETROLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CHROMITE DEPOSITS;

CHROMITITE; FOOTWALL; HOST ROCK; METASOMATISM; PARTIAL MELTING; PETROGENESIS; RECRYSTALLIZATION;

AFRICA; BUSHVELD COMPLEX; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 33745884963     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.100.8.1617     Document Type: Article

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