Uranium minerals from the San Marcos District, Chihuahua, Mexico

Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 121-132

  Reyes Cortés, Manuel ^a,b   Fuentes Cobas, Luis ^a   Torres Moye, Enrique ^a   Esparza Ponce, Hilda ^a   Montero Cabrera, María Elena ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN MATERIALES AVANZADOS   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE CHIHUAHUA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETRY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; MINERAL ALTERATION; MINERALIZATION; MINERALOGY; RIETVELD ANALYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; URANIUM; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

CHIHUAHUA [MEXICO]; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; SAN MARCOS [CHIHUAHUA];

EID: 77951294921     PISSN: 09300708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00710-009-0104-z     Document Type: Article

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