Elbrusite-(Zr)-A new uranian garnet from the Upper Chegem caldera, Kabardino-Balkaria, Northern Caucasus, Russia

American Mineralogist

Volumn 95, Issue 8-9, 2010, Pages 1172-1181

  Galuskina, Irina O ^a   Galuskin, Evgegeny V ^a   Armbrusteter, Thomas ^b   Lazic, Biljana ^b   Kusz, Joachim ^a   Dzierzanowski, Piotr ^c   Gazeeeev, Viktotor M ^d   Pertsev, Nikolai N ^d   Prusik, Krystitian ^a   Zadov, Aleksandr E ^e   Winiarski, Antoni ^a   Wrzalik, Roman ^a   Gurbanov, Anatotoly G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY OF ORE DEPOSITS   (Russian Federation)

^e NEOCHEM   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

EBSD; Elbrusite (Zr); Metamictization; New garnet; Raman spectroscopy; Solid solution; Upper Chegem caldera; Uranium

Indexed keywords

GARNETS; PEROVSKITE; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SILICON; SOLID SOLUTIONS; THORIUM COMPOUNDS; URANIUM; URANIUM COMPOUNDS; URANIUM METALLOGRAPHY; ZIRCONIUM METALLOGRAPHY;

ALPHA-DECAY EVENTS; EBSD; ELBRUSITE-(ZR); EMPIRICAL FORMULAS; ETTRINGITE GROUPS; HYDROGROSSULAR; METAMICTIZATION; UPPER CHEGEM CALDERA;

ZIRCONIUM COMPOUNDS;

ELBRUSITE; GARNET; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SKARN; SOLID SOLUTION; URANIUM;

URANIA;

EID: 77953527812     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am.2010.3507     Document Type: Article

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