Electron microprobe analysis of REE in apatite, monazite and xenotime: Protocols and pitfalls

Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry

Volumn 48, Issue , 2002, Pages

  Pyle, Joseph M ^a   Spear, Frank S ^a   Wark, David A ^a  

^a Research Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

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EID: 33846087083     PISSN: 15296466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2138/rmg.2002.48.8     Document Type: Article

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