Beneath the Stillwater Complex: Petrology and geochemistry of quartz-plagioclase-cordierite (or garnet)-orthopyroxene-biotite ± spinel hornfels, Mountain View area, Montana

American Mineralogist

Volumn 93, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 438-450

  Thomson, Jennifer A ^a  

^a EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Back reactions; Hornfels; Partial melting; Stillwater Complex

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; COPPER ALLOYS; COPPER COMPOUNDS; CORE DRILLING; DRILLS; FELDSPAR; GARNETS; GEOCHEMISTRY; INFILL DRILLING; IRON ALLOYS; IRON OXIDES; MELTING; MICA; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; NICKEL DEPOSITS; PETROLOGY; QUARTZ; ROCKS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TERNARY ALLOYS; TEXTURES; TITANIUM ALLOYS; TITANIUM OXIDES; URANIUM ALLOYS;

BACK REACTION; HORNFELS; LOWER TEMPERATURES; MINERAL ASSEMBLAGE; ORTHOPYROXENE; PARTIAL MELTING; STILLWATER COMPLEX; WHOLE-ROCK GEOCHEMISTRIES;

BIOTITE;

CORDIERITE; GEOCHEMISTRY; HORNFELS; PARTIAL MELTING; PETROGENESIS; PLAGIOCLASE; QUARTZ;

MONTANA; NORTH AMERICA; STILLWATER COMPLEX; UNITED STATES;

EID: 41649118473     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am.2008.2572     Document Type: Conference Paper

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