Flood basalts and magmatic Ni, Cu, and PGE Sulphide Mineralization: Comparative Geochemistry of the Noril’sk (Siberian Traps) and West Greenland sequences

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 100, Issue , 1997, Pages 357-380

  Lightfoot, Peter C ^a   Hawkesworth, Chris J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33847431529     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/GM100p0357     Document Type: Chapter

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