Three-dimensional phase separation and identification in granite

Geosphere

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 79-86

  Boone, Matthieu ^a   Dewanckele, Jan ^a   Boone, Marijn ^a   Cnudde, Veerle ^a   Silversmit, Geert ^a   Van Ranst, Eric ^a   Jacobs, Patric ^a   Vincze, Laszlo ^a   Van Hoorebeke, Luc ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRANITE; IMAGING METHOD; PRECAMBRIAN; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOMOGRAPHY; VISUALIZATION; X-RAY DIFFRACTION; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 79952856567     PISSN: 1553-040     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00562.1     Document Type: Article

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