Silicon-substituted magnetite and accompanying iron oxides and hydroxides from the Kumano mine, Yamaguchi prefecture, Japan: Reexamination of the so-called maghemite (γ-Fe2O3)

Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 182-193

  Ohkawa, Makio ^a   Miyahara, Masaaki ^a,b   Ohta, Eri ^a   Hoshino, Kenichi ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Iron skarn; Kumano mine; Maghemite; Oxidation; Reduction; Si substituted magnetite

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547135939     PISSN: 13456296     EISSN: 13493825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2465/jmps.050706     Document Type: Article

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