Chapter 4 Surface Textures and Dissolution Processes of Heavy Minerals in the Sedimentary Cycle: Examples from Pyroxenes and Amphiboles

Developments in Sedimentology

Volumn 58, Issue , 2007, Pages 113-150

  Velbel, Michael Anthony ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

amphibole; chain silicates; corrosion; dissolution kinetics; etch pits; etching; hornblende; inosilicates; pyribole; pyroxene; scanning electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 44349125067     PISSN: 00704571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0070-4571(07)58004-0     Document Type: Review

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