Microstructures of the Zunhua 2.50 Ga Podiform Chromite, North China Craton and Implications for the Deformation and Rheology of the Archean Oceanic Lithospheric Mantle

Developments in Precambrian Geology

Volumn 13, Issue C, 2004, Pages 321-337

  Huang, Xiongnan ^a   Li, Jianghai ^a   Kusky, T M ^b   Chen, Zheng ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Saint Louis University   (United States)

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EID: 77956721698     PISSN: 01662635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-2635(04)13010-7     Document Type: Review

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