Compositional variation of tourmaline-group minerals in the Borborema Pegmatite Province, northeastern Brazil

Canadian Mineralogist

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1097-1116

  Soares, Dwight Rodrigues ^a   Beurlen, Hartmut ^b   Barreto, Sandra de Brito ^b   Da Silva, Marcelo Reis Rodrigues ^b   Ferreira, Ana Claudia Mousinho ^a  

^a UNED   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Borborema Pegmatite Province; Brazil; Mineral composition; Para ba; Pegmatite evolution; Tourmaline

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CARBONATE MINERALS; COPPER; COPPER OXIDES; FELDSPAR; GARNETS; GRANITE; INDICATORS (CHEMICAL); MICA; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; NIOBIUM; OXIDE MINERALS; QUARTZ; SILICA; SOLID SOLUTIONS; TANTALATE MINERALS; TANTALUM; ZINC;

BORBOREMA PEGMATITE PROVINCE; BRAZIL; MINERAL COMPOSITION; PEGMATITE EVOLUTION; TOURMALINE;

SILICATE MINERALS;

ACCESSORY MINERAL; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONGLOMERATE; CRYSTALLIZATION; FRACTIONATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; HOST ROCK; MINERALOGY; PEGMATITE; QUARTZITE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TOURMALINE; TREND ANALYSIS; ZONING;

BORBOREMA; BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 59649090471     PISSN: 00084476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3749/canmin.46.5.1097     Document Type: Article

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