Needs and opportunities in mineral evolution research

American Mineralogist

Volumn 96, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 953-963

  Hazen, Robert M ^a   Bekker, Rey ^b   Bish, David L ^c   Bleeker, Wouter ^d   Downs, Robert T ^e   Farquhar, James ^f   Ferry, John M ^g   Grew, Edward S ^h   Knoll, Rew H ⁱ   Papineau, Dominic ^j   Ralph, Jolyon P ^k   Sverjensky, Dimitri A ^g   Valley, John W ^l  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^e University of Arizona   (United States)

^f University of Maryland   (United States)

^g JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

ⁱ HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^k Mindatorg   (United Kingdom)

^l UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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Author keywords

Database; Isotope geochemistry; Mineral data; Origins of life; Philosophy of mineralogy

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; EXPLORATORY GEOCHEMISTRY;

GEOLOGIC SETTINGS; ISOTOPE GEOCHEMISTRY; MINERAL EVOLUTIONS; NEAR SURFACES; ORIGINS OF LIFE;

MINERALS;

DATABASE; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MINERALOGY; RESEARCH; SOFTWARE;

EID: 79960608047     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: 19453027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am.2011.3725     Document Type: Article

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