Diagenetic fluorapatite and aluminum phosphate-sulphate in the Paleoproterozoic Thelon Formation and Hornby Bay Group, northwestern Canadian Shield

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 617-629

  Gall, Q ^a   Donaldson, J A ^b  

^a Carleton University ^*  (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; MINERAL RESOURCES; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE-SULPHATE (APS) MINERAL; CANADA; DIAGENETIC MINERAL PARAGENESIS; FLUORAPATITE;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ALUMINUM COMPOUND; DIAGENESIS; FLUORAPATITE; MINERALOGY; PROTEROZOIC; ZONATION;

CANADA; CANADIAN SHIELD; NORTH AMERICA; NUNAVUT; THELON BASIN;

GULO GULO;

EID: 33746661465     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/E06-011     Document Type: Article

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