Archean komatiitic sill-hosted Chromite deposits in the Zimbabwe Craton

Economic Geology

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 981-1004

  Prendergast, M D ^a  

^a Guesachan   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMITE; CHROMIUM; CRYSTALLIZATION; GALLIUM; IRON ORES; MAGNETITE; NANOCRYSTALLINE ALLOYS; OLIVINE; ORES; OXIDE MINERALS; RAILROADS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; STRAIN RATE; STRATIGRAPHY; WATER ABSORPTION;

ARCHEAN; BODY SIZES; CATION EXCHANGE PROCESSES; CHROMITITE; CHROMITITES; EQUILIBRIUM CRYSTALLIZATIONS; EXSOLUTION; GREENSCHIST; GREENSTONE BELTS; LAYERED INTRUSIONS; MACROCYCLIC; MAGMA CHAMBERS; MAGNETITE PHASE; MANTLE SOURCES; METAMORPHIC GRADES; ORE COMPOSITIONS; ORE QUALITIES; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCES; SERPENTINIZATION; SUBSOLIDUS; ZIMBABWE;

CHROMITE DEPOSITS;

AMPHIBOLITE; ARCHEAN; CHROMITE; CRYSTALLIZATION; GNEISS; GREENSTONE; MAGMA; METAMORPHISM; MINERAL DEPOSIT; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE;

AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; ZIMBABWE CRATON;

EID: 58149171764     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.103.5.981     Document Type: Article

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