A fast and easy-to-use approach to cation site assignment for eudialyte-group minerals

Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, Abhandlungen

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 69-81

  Pfaff, Katharina ^a   Wenzel, Thomas ^a   Schilling, Julian ^a   Marks, Michael A W ^a   Markl, Gregor ^a  

^a AB Mineralogie und Geodynamik   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agpaitic rocks; Calculation scheme; Eudialyte group minerals (EGM); Ilimaussaq (Greenland); Tamazeght (Morocco)

Indexed keywords

CATION; ELECTRON PROBE ANALYSIS; EUDIALYTE; IONIC COMPOSITION; PERALKALINE ROCK;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; MOROCCO;

EID: 77958517845     PISSN: 00777757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0077-7757/2010/0166     Document Type: Article

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