Speleothems of Granite caves

Comunicacoes Geologicas

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 71-80

  Vidal Romani J R ^a   Sanjurjo Sanchez J ^a   Vaqueiro, M ^a,b   Fernandez Mosquera D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biospeleothem; Evansite; Granite cave; Opal A; Pigotite; Struvite

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884370815     PISSN: 0873948X     EISSN: 1647581X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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