Formation of ferrian chromite in podiform chromitites from the Golyamo Kamenyane serpentinite, Eastern Rhodopes, SE Bulgaria: A two-stage process

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 164, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 643-657

  Gervilla, F ^a,b   Padron Navarta J A ^a   Kerestedjian, T ^c   Sergeeva, I ^c   Gonzalez Jimenez J M ^d   Fanlo, I ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO ANDALUZ DE CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA   (Spain)

^c GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Bulgaria)

^d MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chromite; CrMASH system; Ferrian chromite; HP HT metamorphism; Retrograde evolution; Rhodope massif

Indexed keywords

ANTIGORITE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHROMITE; CHROMITITE; EXHUMATION; LITHOLOGY; MAGNETITE; METAGABBRO; RETROGRADE METAMORPHISM; SERPENTINITE; TALC; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM; ULTRAHIGH TEMPERATURE METAMORPHISM;

BULGARIA; RHODOPE MOUNTAINS;

EID: 84866463775     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-012-0763-3     Document Type: Article

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