Zoning in the Kirka borate deposit, western Turkey: Primary evaporitic fractionation or diagenetic modifications?

Canadian Mineralogist

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1179-1204

  Helvaci, Cahit ^a   Ortí, Federico ^b  

^a DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Borates; Borax; Evaporites; Kirka deposit; Lake; Miocene; Turkey; Zoned borates

Indexed keywords

BORATE MINERALS; CRYSTALLIZATION; EVAPORATION; FRACTIONATION; GROUNDWATER; LAKES; PETROGRAPHY; ZONING;

BORAX; MINERAL ZONATION; SALINITY; ULEXITE;

BORON DEPOSITS;

BORATE; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DIAGENESIS; EVAPORITE; MIOCENE;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; ESKISEHIR [TURKEY]; EURASIA; KIRKA; TURKEY; WORLD;

EID: 7744235761     PISSN: 00084476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gscanmin.42.4.1179     Document Type: Article

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