Petrology of Al- and Cr-rich ophiolitic chromitites from the Muǧla, SW Turkey: Implications from composition of chromite, solid inclusions of platinum-group mineral, silicate, and base-metal mineral, and Os-isotope geochemistry

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 158, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 659-674

  Uysal, Ibrahim ^a   Tarkian, Mahmud ^b   Sadiklar, M Burhan ^a   Zaccarini, Federica ^c   Meisel, Thomas ^c   Garuti, Giorgio ^c   Heidrich, Stefanie ^b  

^a KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

Author keywords

Melt peridotite interaction; Ophiolitic chromitites; Os isotope; Platinum group elements; Platinum group minerals; Silicate inclusions

Indexed keywords

BASE METAL; CHROMITE; CHROMITITE; INCLUSION; OPHIOLITE; OSMIUM ISOTOPE; PARTIAL MELTING; PERIDOTITE; PETROLOGY; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENT; SILICATE;

EURASIA; MUGLA; TURKEY;

EID: 70349193529     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-009-0402-9     Document Type: Article

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