Nanoscale "liquid" inclusions of As-Fe-S in arsenian pyrite

American Mineralogist

Volumn 94, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 391-394

  Deditius, Artur P ^a   Utsunomiya, Satoshi ^b   Ewing, Rrodney C ^a   Kesler, Stephen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arsenian pyrite; Arsenic; HRTEM; Inclusion; Pueblo Viejo

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; INCLUSIONS; IRON METALLOGRAPHY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PYRITES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSIONS;

AMORPHOUS INCLUSIONS; ATOMIC PROPORTION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; HIGH-ANGLE ANNULAR DARK FIELDS; HRTEM; LATTICE FRINGES; NANO-SCALE INCLUSION; PUEBLO VIEJO;

HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ARSENIC; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CORRELATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON PROBE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INCLUSION; LATTICE DYNAMICS; PYRITE;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; GREATER ANTILLES;

EID: 67649921187     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am.2009.3116     Document Type: Review

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