A Ni- and PGE-enriched quartz norite impact melt complex in the Late Jurassic Morokweng impact structure, South Africa

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 339, Issue , 1999, Pages 91-108

  Andreoli, M A G ^a,b   Ashwal, L D ^c   Hart, R J ^b,d   Huizenga, J M ^c  

^a NECSA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^d Western Cape Regional Office   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FELDSPAR; MAGNESIA; NICKEL OXIDE; PLATINUM; QUARTZ; RARE EARTHS; ROCKS; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SILICATES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SULFIDE MINERALS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

FINE GRAINED; IMPACT STRUCTURES; INTER-GROWTHS; LATE JURASSIC; ORTHOPYROXENE; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENTS; SIDEROPHILE ELEMENTS; THERMAL METAMORPHISM;

COPPER COMPOUNDS;

AUGITE; CRATER; CRYSTALLIZATION; GEOCHEMICAL SURVEY; GRANOPHYRE; JURASSIC; MELTING; NICKEL; NORITE; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; ORTHOPYROXENE; PLAGIOCLASE; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENT; QUARTZ; SIDEROPHILE ELEMENT;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84870938808     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2339-6.91     Document Type: Article

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