Potash in a salt mushroom at Hormoz Island, Hormoz Strait, Iran

Ore Geology Reviews

Volumn 35, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 317-332

  Talbot, Christopher ^a   Aftabi, Pedram ^b   Chemia, Zurab ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF IRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Hormoz Island; Iran; Mushroom diapir; Potash deposits

Indexed keywords

EXPLORATION STRATEGIES; EXPOSURE LEVELS; FIELD MEASUREMENTS; GEOCHEMICAL SURVEYS; HOLOCENE; HORMOZ ISLAND; INTERNAL CIRCULATIONS; IRAN; MARINE EROSIONS; MUSHROOM DIAPIR; NEAR SHORES; NUMERICAL MODELS; STRATIGRAPHIC MARKERS; TOROIDAL AXIS;

LANDFORMS; POTASH DEPOSITS; STRATIGRAPHY;

POTASH;

DIAPIR; EROSION; EXPLORATION; HOLOCENE; NONMINERAL DEPOSIT; NUMERICAL MODEL; POTASH;

ASIA; BANDAR ABBAS; EURASIA; HORMOZGAN; IRAN; MIDDLE EAST;

BASIDIOMYCOTA;

EID: 67349174992     PISSN: 01691368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2008.11.005     Document Type: Article

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