Chemical composition and tectonic setting of chromian spinels from the Ediacaran-early Paleozoic Nama group, Namibia

Journal of Geology

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 325-341

  Blanco, G ^b   Rajesh, H M ^b   Germs, G J B ^b   Zimmermann, U ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BONINITE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; ELECTRON PROBE ANALYSIS; ISLAND ARC; MAGMA; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; PALEOCURRENT; PALEOZOIC; PETROGRAPHY; PROVENANCE; SANDSTONE; SOURCE ROCK; SPINEL; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; VOLCANIC ISLAND;

AFRICA; DAMARA BELT; NAMIBIA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 65949117819     PISSN: 00221376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/597366     Document Type: Article

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