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03 May 2021

Defects in olivine

Sylvie Demouchy

Eur. J. Mineral., 33, 249–282, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-33-249-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-33-249-2021, 2021 | 6,095 views

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04 Jun 2020

Structure and theoretical infrared spectra of OH defects in quartz

Michael C. Jollands, Marc Blanchard, and Etienne Balan

Eur. J. Mineral., 32, 311–323, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-311-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-311-2020, 2020 | 5,660 views

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06 Feb 2023

IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) – Newsletter 71

Ferdinando Bosi, Ritsuro Miyawaki, Frédéric Hatert, Marco Pasero, and Stuart J. Mills

Eur. J. Mineral., 35, 75–79, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-75-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-75-2023, 2023 | 5,649 views

15 Oct 2021

A new clinopyroxene thermobarometer for mafic to intermediate magmatic systems

Xudong Wang, Tong Hou, Meng Wang, Chao Zhang, Zhaochong Zhang, Ronghao Pan, Felix Marxer, and Hongluo Zhang

Eur. J. Mineral., 33, 621–637, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-33-621-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-33-621-2021, 2021 | 5,208 views

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27 Apr 2021

A gemmological study of the reliquary crown of Namur, Belgium

Yannick Bruni, Frédéric Hatert, Philippe George, Hélène Cambier, and David Strivay

Eur. J. Mineral., 33, 221–232, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-33-221-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-33-221-2021, 2021 | 5,096 views

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16 Feb 2023

Effect of Fe–Fe interactions and X-site vacancy ordering on the OH-stretching spectrum of foitite

Etienne Balan, Guillaume Radtke, Chloé Fourdrin, Lorenzo Paulatto, Heinrich A. Horn, and Yves Fuchs

Eur. J. Mineral., 35, 105–116, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-105-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-105-2023, 2023 | 5,057 views

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15 Jan 2020

Determination of the H₂O content in minerals, especially zeolites, from their refractive indices based on mean electronic polarizabilities of cations

Reinhard X. Fischer, Manfred Burianek, and Robert D. Shannon

Eur. J. Mineral., 32, 27–40, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-27-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-27-2020, 2020 | 4,291 views

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09 Dec 2020

Reaction progress of clay minerals and carbonaceous matter in a contact metamorphic aureole (Torres del Paine intrusion, Chile)

Annette Süssenberger, Susanne Theodora Schmidt, Florian H. Schmidt, and Manuel F. G. Weinkauf

Eur. J. Mineral., 32, 653–671, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-653-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-653-2020, 2020 | 4,171 views

13 Apr 2021

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OH point defects in quartz – a review

Roland Stalder

Eur. J. Mineral., 33, 145–163, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-33-145-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-33-145-2021, 2021 | 4,004 views

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19 Apr 2021

Grimmite, NiCo₂S₄, a new thiospinel from Příbram, Czech Republic

Pavel Škácha, Jiří Sejkora, Jakub Plášil, Zdeněk Dolníček, and Jana Ulmanová

Eur. J. Mineral., 33, 175–187, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-33-175-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-33-175-2021, 2021 | 3,892 views

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04 Nov 2020

Contaminating melt flow in magmatic peridotites from the lower continental crust (Rocca d'Argimonia sequence, Ivrea–Verbano Zone)

Marta Antonicelli, Riccardo Tribuzio, Tong Liu, and Fu-Yuan Wu

Eur. J. Mineral., 32, 587–612, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-587-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-587-2020, 2020 | 3,834 views

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27 Jun 2022

Graulichite-(La), LaFe³⁺₃(AsO₄)₂(OH)₆, a new addition to the alunite supergroup from the Patte d'Oie mine, Bou Skour mining district, Morocco

Cristian Biagioni, Marco E. Ciriotti, Georges Favreau, Daniela Mauro, and Federica Zaccarini

Eur. J. Mineral., 34, 365–374, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-34-365-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-34-365-2022, 2022 | 3,645 views

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14 Jul 2021

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A remarkable discovery of electrum on the island of Sylt, northern Germany, and its Scandinavian origin

Jochen Schlüter, Stephan Schuth, Raúl O. C. Fonseca, and Daniel Wendt

Eur. J. Mineral., 33, 373–387, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-33-373-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-33-373-2021, 2021 | 3,596 views

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16 Jan 2020

Raman spectroscopic identification of cookeite in the crystal-rich inclusions in spodumene from the Jiajika lithium pegmatite deposit, China, and its geological implications

Xin Ding, Jiankang Li, I-Ming Chou, Zhenyu Chen, and Shenghu Li

Eur. J. Mineral., 32, 67–75, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-67-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-67-2020, 2020 | 3,419 views

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08 Dec 2020

IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) – Newsletter 58

Ritsuro Miyawaki, Frédéric Hatert, Marco Pasero, and Stuart J. Mills

Eur. J. Mineral., 32, 645–651, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-645-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-645-2020, 2020 | 3,381 views

24 Feb 2020

A new method to quantitatively control oxygen fugacity in externally heated pressure vessel experiments

Alice Alex and Zoltán Zajacz

Eur. J. Mineral., 32, 219–234, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-219-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-219-2020, 2020 | 3,232 views

05 Feb 2021

Influence of water on the physical properties of olivine, wadsleyite, and ringwoodite

Bao-Hua Zhang and Qun-Ke Xia

Eur. J. Mineral., 33, 39–75, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-33-39-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-33-39-2021, 2021 | 3,226 views

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19 Oct 2022

IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) – Newsletter 69

Ritsuro Miyawaki, Frédéric Hatert, Marco Pasero, and Stuart J. Mills

Eur. J. Mineral., 34, 463–468, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-34-463-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-34-463-2022, 2022 | 3,220 views

09 Feb 2021

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Multi-scale characterization of glaucophane from Chiavolino (Biella, Italy): implications for international regulations on elongate mineral particles

Ruggero Vigliaturo, Sabrina M. Elkassas, Giancarlo Della Ventura, Günther J. Redhammer, Francisco Ruiz-Zepeda, Michael J. O'Shea, Goran Dražić, and Reto Gieré

Eur. J. Mineral., 33, 77–112, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-33-77-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-33-77-2021, 2021 | 3,209 views

03 Apr 2020

IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) – Newsletter 54

Ritsuro Miyawaki, Frédéric Hatert, Marco Pasero, and Stuart J. Mills

Eur. J. Mineral., 32, 275–283, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-275-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-275-2020, 2020 | 3,186 views

14 Jan 2020

IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) – Newsletter 52

Ritsuro Miyawaki, Frédéric Hatert, Marco Pasero, and Stuart J. Mills

Eur. J. Mineral., 32, 1–11, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-1-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-1-2020, 2020 | 3,159 views

19 Jul 2023

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Some thoughts about eclogites and related rocks

Michael Brown

Eur. J. Mineral., 35, 523–547, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-523-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-523-2023, 2023 | 2,982 views

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16 Jan 2020

How do diamonds grow in metal melt together with silicate minerals? An experimental study of diamond morphology

Aleksei Chepurov, Valery Sonin, Jean-Marie Dereppe, Egor Zhimulev, and Anatoly Chepurov

Eur. J. Mineral., 32, 41–55, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-41-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-41-2020, 2020 | 2,980 views

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29 Jan 2020

Unusual silicate mineralization in fumarolic sublimates of the Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka, Russia – Part 1: Neso-, cyclo-, ino- and phyllosilicates

Nadezhda V. Shchipalkina, Igor V. Pekov, Natalia N. Koshlyakova, Sergey N. Britvin, Natalia V. Zubkova, Dmitry A. Varlamov, and Eugeny G. Sidorov

Eur. J. Mineral., 32, 101–119, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-101-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-101-2020, 2020 | 2,833 views

19 Jun 2023

IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) – Newsletter 73

Ferdinando Bosi, Frédéric Hatert, Marco Pasero, and Stuart J. Mills

Eur. J. Mineral., 35, 397–402, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-397-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-397-2023, 2023 | 2,806 views

11 May 2020

Thermodynamic properties, crystal structure and phase relations of pushcharovskite [Cu(AsO₃OH)(H₂O) ⋅ 0.5H₂O], geminite [Cu(AsO₃OH)(H₂O)] and liroconite [Cu₂Al(AsO₄)(OH)₄ ⋅ 4H₂O]

Alexandra M. Plumhoff, Jakub Plášil, Edgar Dachs, Artur Benisek, Jiří Sejkora, Martin Števko, Mike S. Rumsey, and Juraj Majzlan

Eur. J. Mineral., 32, 285–304, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-285-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-285-2020, 2020 | 2,785 views

25 Jan 2022

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The influence of oxygen fugacity and chlorine on amphibole–liquid trace element partitioning at upper-mantle conditions

Enrico Cannaò, Massimo Tiepolo, Giulio Borghini, Antonio Langone, and Patrizia Fumagalli

Eur. J. Mineral., 34, 35–57, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-34-35-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-34-35-2022, 2022 | 2,783 views

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15 Jul 2020

Partial melting of zoisite eclogite from the Sanddal area, North-East Greenland Caledonides

Wentao Cao, Jane A. Gilotti, and Hans-Joachim Massonne

Eur. J. Mineral., 32, 405–425, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-405-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-405-2020, 2020 | 2,774 views

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15 Jan 2020

Characterization of recovery onset by subgrain and grain boundary migration in experimentally deformed polycrystalline olivine

Billy Clitton Nzogang, Manuel Thieme, Alexandre Mussi, Sylvie Demouchy, and Patrick Cordier

Eur. J. Mineral., 32, 13–26, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-13-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-13-2020, 2020 | 2,740 views

11 Feb 2020

Breyite inclusions in diamond: experimental evidence for possible dual origin

Alan B. Woodland, Andrei V. Girnis, Vadim K. Bulatov, Gerhard P. Brey, and Heidi E. Höfer

Eur. J. Mineral., 32, 171–185, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-171-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-171-2020, 2020 | 2,724 views

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21 Jan 2020

Adding complexity to the garnet supergroup: monteneveite, Ca₃Sb⁵⁺₂(Fe³⁺₂Fe²⁺)O₁₂, a new mineral from the Monteneve mine, Bolzano Province, Italy

Andreas Karlsson, Dan Holtstam, Luca Bindi, Paola Bonazzi, and Matthias Konrad-Schmolke

Eur. J. Mineral., 32, 77–87, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-77-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-77-2020, 2020 | 2,715 views

31 Aug 2023

Batoniite, [Al₈(OH)₁₄(H₂O)₁₈](SO₄)₅ ⋅ 5H₂O, a new mineral with the [Al₈(OH)₁₄(H₂O)₁₈]¹⁰⁺ polyoxocation from the Cetine di Cotorniano Mine, Tuscany, Italy

Daniela Mauro, Cristian Biagioni, Jiří Sejkora, Zdeněk Dolníček, and Radek Škoda

Eur. J. Mineral., 35, 703–714, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-703-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-703-2023, 2023 | 2,689 views

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17 Feb 2020

IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) – Newsletter 53

Ritsuro Miyawaki, Frédéric Hatert, Marco Pasero, and Stuart J. Mills

Eur. J. Mineral., 32, 209–213, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-209-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-209-2020, 2020 | 2,684 views

17 Feb 2020

Multistage origin of dunite in the Purang ophiolite, southern Tibet, documented by composition, exsolution and Li isotope characteristics of constituent minerals

Fahui Xiong, Jingsui Yang, Hans-Peter Schertl, Zhao Liu, and Xiangzhen Xu

Eur. J. Mineral., 32, 187–207, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-187-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-187-2020, 2020 | 2,674 views

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06 Apr 2023

Optimal Raman-scattering signal for estimating the Fe³⁺ content on the clinozoisite–epidote join

Mariko Nagashima and Boriana Mihailova

Eur. J. Mineral., 35, 267–283, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-267-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-267-2023, 2023 | 2,662 views

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31 Aug 2022

IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) – Newsletter 68

Ritsuro Miyawaki, Frédéric Hatert, Marco Pasero, and Stuart J. Mills

Eur. J. Mineral., 34, 385–391, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-34-385-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-34-385-2022, 2022 | 2,644 views

21 Feb 2024

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Granite magmatism and mantle filiation

Michel Pichavant, Arnaud Villaros, Julie A.-S. Michaud, and Bruno Scaillet

Eur. J. Mineral., 36, 225–246, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-36-225-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-36-225-2024, 2024 | 2,628 views

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16 Jan 2020

Aluminosugilite, KNa₂Al₂Li₃Si₁₂O₃₀, an Al analogue of sugilite, from the Cerchiara mine, Liguria, Italy

Mariko Nagashima, Chihiro Fukuda, Takashi Matsumoto, Teruyoshi Imaoka, Gianluca Odicino, and Gianluca Armellino

Eur. J. Mineral., 32, 57–66, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-57-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-57-2020, 2020 | 2,607 views

11 Mar 2020

Mullite-2c – a natural polytype of mullite

Stephan Lenz, Johannes Birkenstock, Lennart A. Fischer, Hartmut Schneider, and Reinhard X. Fischer

Eur. J. Mineral., 32, 235–249, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-235-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-235-2020, 2020 | 2,602 views

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17 Jun 2020

Laurentthomasite, Mg₂K(Be₂Al)Si₁₂O₃₀: a new milarite-group-type member from the Ihorombe region, Fianarantsoa Province, Madagascar

Cristiano Ferraris, Isabella Pignatelli, Fernando Cámara, Giancarlo Parodi, Sylvain Pont, Martin Schreyer, and Fengxia Wei

Eur. J. Mineral., 32, 355–365, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-355-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-355-2020, 2020 | 2,597 views

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01 Aug 2023

Corundum-bearing and spinel-bearing symplectites in ultrahigh-pressure eclogites record high-temperature overprint and partial melting during slab exhumation

Pan Tang and Shun Guo

Eur. J. Mineral., 35, 569–588, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-569-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-569-2023, 2023 | 2,492 views

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08 Jun 2020

Rhönite in Cenozoic alkali basalt from Changle, Shandong Province, China, and its significance

Fan-Mei Kong, Hans-Peter Schertl, Ling-Quan Zhao, Xu-Ping Li, and Xiao-Han Liu

Eur. J. Mineral., 32, 325–346, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-325-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-325-2020, 2020 | 2,482 views

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29 Jan 2020

Unusual silicate mineralization in fumarolic sublimates of the Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka, Russia – Part 2: Tectosilicates

Nadezhda V. Shchipalkina, Igor V. Pekov, Natalia N. Koshlyakova, Sergey N. Britvin, Natalia V. Zubkova, Dmitry A. Varlamov, and Eugeny G. Sidorov

Eur. J. Mineral., 32, 121–136, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-121-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-121-2020, 2020 | 2,481 views

23 Mar 2020

Melting relations of anhydrous olivine-free pyroxenite Px1 at 2 GPa

Giulio Borghini and Patrizia Fumagalli

Eur. J. Mineral., 32, 251–264, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-251-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-251-2020, 2020 | 2,457 views

29 Jan 2020

Crystal chemistry of fluorcarletonite, a new mineral from the Murun alkaline complex (Russia)

Ekaterina Kaneva, Tatiana Radomskaya, Ludmila Suvorova, Irina Sterkhova, and Mikhail Mitichkin

Eur. J. Mineral., 32, 137–146, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-137-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-137-2020, 2020 | 2,437 views

06 Aug 2020

IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) – Newsletter 56

Ritsuro Miyawaki, Frédéric Hatert, Marco Pasero, and Stuart J. Mills

Eur. J. Mineral., 32, 443–448, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-443-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-443-2020, 2020 | 2,411 views

02 Nov 2020

Two new minerals, badengzhuite, TiP, and zhiqinite, TiSi₂, from the Cr-11 chromitite orebody, Luobusa ophiolite, Tibet, China: is this evidence for super-reduced mantle-derived fluids?

Fahui Xiong, Xiangzhen Xu, Enrico Mugnaioli, Mauro Gemmi, Richard Wirth, Edward S. Grew, Paul T. Robinson, and Jingsui Yang

Eur. J. Mineral., 32, 557–574, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-557-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-32-557-2020, 2020 | 2,399 views

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02 Jul 2021

Kahlenbergite KAl₁₁O₁₇, a new β-alumina mineral and Fe-rich hibonite from the Hatrurim Basin, the Negev desert, Israel

Biljana Krüger, Evgeny V. Galuskin, Irina O. Galuskina, Hannes Krüger, and Yevgeny Vapnik

Eur. J. Mineral., 33, 341–355, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-33-341-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-33-341-2021, 2021 | 2,372 views

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03 Aug 2021

Structural, textural, and chemical controls on the OH stretching vibrations in serpentine-group minerals

Emmanuel Fritsch, Etienne Balan, Sabine Petit, and Farid Juillot

Eur. J. Mineral., 33, 447–462, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-33-447-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-33-447-2021, 2021 | 2,325 views

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16 Feb 2022

Melt–rock interactions in a veined mantle: pyroxenite–peridotite reaction experiments at 2 GPa

Giulio Borghini, Patrizia Fumagalli, and Elisabetta Rampone

Eur. J. Mineral., 34, 109–129, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-34-109-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-34-109-2022, 2022 | 2,319 views

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